Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.