Do We Have The Will To Make

A Discussion Should Be A Genuine Attempt To Explore A Subject Rather Than A Battle Between Competing Egos.

(...) Being Right All The Time Acquires A Huge Importance In Education, And There Is This Terror Of Being Wrong. The Ego Is So Tied To Being Right That Later On In Life You Are Reluctant To Accept That You Are Ever Wrong, Because You Are Defending Not The Idea But Your Self-esteem. (...) This Terror Of Being Wrong Means That People Have Enormous Difficulties In Changing Ideas.

You Cannot Look In A New Direction By Looking Harder In The Same Direction.

I Do A Great Deal Of Work With Young Children, And If You Give A Child A Problem, He May Come Up With A Highly Original Solution, Because He Doesn't Have The Established Route To It.

Language Is The Biggest Barrier To Human Progress Because Language Is An Encyclopedia Of Ignorance. Old Perceptions Are Frozen Into Language And Force Us To Look At The World In An Old Fashioned Way.