Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child