Politics Quote by Peter H. Diamandis

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to…

— Jerry Brown

“It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less…

— Abhijit V. Banerjee

“once we wrapped the globe in endless circles of wires crossing the deserts and beneath the oceans, decentralization was not only possible, but inevitable.”

— Kevin Kelly

“There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include personal government will only guarantee our mediocrity.”

— Graham Cooke

“Education has a social specificity of its own that centres on the conditions for the acquisition of knowledge that can never be reduced to…

— Michael F.D. Young

“It is a central thesis of this book that centralization has reached diminishing returns and is no longer yielding any benefit. Instead, it has…

— Charles Hugh Smith

“A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.”

— Paul Kriwaczek

“The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge.”

— Lao Tzu

Decentralization demands both vertical and horizontal deconcentration of services, wealth and power to the long neglected at no political cost

— Ba

“But the lesson of those years is that the ruling class can't be relied upon to redistribute wealth and power.”

— Selina Todd

“In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to officials, and other resources are unequally…

— Larry M. Bartels

“institutionalised learning in schools and institutions can tend to undermine the desire to learn, at least in certain contexts and under certain forms.”

— Knud Illeris