Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.