The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is not for them to adapt to the dominant and dominating world of the so-called non-disabled. It is for us to adapt our understanding of a common humanity; to learn of the richness of how human life is diverse; to recognize the presence of disability in our human midst as an enrichment of our diversity.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.