Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.

Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

It takes bold direction and leadership to heal a divided nation.

It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.