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- As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
- Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
- Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.
- When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.
- Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.
- In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.