The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

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.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

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

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