The real struggle is in fact not for but against the minds of men. Persuasion as a form of coercion represents an assault on consciousness and intent… - Benjamin Barber

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and nonlearners.

Liberal democracy has been one of the sturdiest political systems in the history of the modern West. As the dominant modern form of democracy, it has informed and guided several of the most successful and enduring governments the world has known, not least among them that of the United States.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.