Life Is The Art Of Drawing Without

The Play Of Conflicting Interests In A Framework Of Shared Purposes Is The Drama Of A Free Society. It Is A Robust Exercise, And Often A Noisy One. It Is Not For The Faint-hearted, Or The Tidy-minded.

But If We Believe What We Profess Concerning The Worth Of The Individual, Then The Idea Of Individual Development Within A Framework Of Ethical Purpose Must Become Our Deepest Concern, Our National Preoccupation, Our Passion, Our Obsession. We Must Think Of Education As Relevant For Everyone Everywhere - At All Ages And In All Conditions Of Life.

It Is One Of The Ironies Of History That Reformers So Often Misjudge The Consequences Of Their Reforms.

The Society Which Scorns Excellence In Plumbing As A Humble Activity And Tolerates Shoddiness In Philosophy Because It Is An Exalted Activity Will Have Neither Good Plumbing Nor Good Philosophy: Neither Its Pipes Nor Its Theories Will Hold Water.

I Think That All Human Systems Require Continuous Renewal. They Rigidify. They Get Stuff In The Joints. They Forget What They Cared About. The Forces Against It Are Nostalgia And The Enormous Appeal Of Having Things The Way They Always Have Been, Appeals To A Supposedly Happy Past. But We've Got To Move On.