'Learning is spontaneous, unpredictable, fun, passionate, dangerous.'

Bowring - Carr and Burnham West UK Educators

'We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary egg. We must hatch or go bad.'

C S Lewis

'It is what teachers think, what teachers do, and what teachers are at the level of the classroom that ultimately shapes the kind of learning that young people get.'

Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan

'We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their vision...not one that succeeds in making apathetic students satisfying minimal standards.'

S Papert

'Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go'.

Sylvia Robinson

'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.'

Margaret Mead

'The guiding principle being put forward is that schools must be self directing.'

John Goodland

'There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.'

Frederico Fellini Film Director

'What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon it destroys our democracy.'

'Much educational change is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic'.

Anon