Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training