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One night Jakie Smith rushed into my room with the sudden illumination: "I know what it is! The law is common sense plus clear English!" I've never heard a better definition of what the law should be and isn't. (Ch. 11)

People believe what they need to believe.

Initially what is important is to be able to successfully make a useful object over which the maker can exclaim, with pleasure and amazement, 'I made this myself!

She was sick of conversations with people passing through. Nothing you said to each other mattered a damn because you'd never see them again.

This was before cell phones. The desolate spaciousness between humans, between human moments, not yet filled in with chattering ghosts of reassurance. You could hear yourself not think.

...when we have more minds concerned, any challenge shrinks proportionally. The solution to our greatest problems may simply be involvement.

Things changed, he thought. Then they didn’t. And we forgot they could again.

It's a survival thing, making yourself a small target.

When as a society we fail to help all people have confidence in their ability to create, we are doubly wasteful. First, we lose from society’s reservoir the creative potential of so many, and second we see those who are left out lose well-being and emotional security.

The finest design for society will not be one worked up by specialists but a design created by the people themselves to fit their needs.

Though it seemed so beautiful, the world around us was eternally dangerous. The price of spiritual freedom, we learnt, was eternal vigilance. Such a high price for so long.

The teacher is the designer of the learning process a choreographer of discovery.