Our schools face the herculean task of perpetuating values and attitudes for which many in our society have little regard. Schools cannot survive without discipline. Schools cannot survive without a sense of order and decorum. Schools cannot survive without rules and the adherence to those rules.

I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?

It adds a layer of knowledge and exposure to the school's general education that a lot of schools don't have. Issues about environmental sustainability are dealt with at a more sophisticated level.

To be sure sometimes we differ, ... but the point is not that one society values privacy more than the other ... but the application of those values.

We should be teaching Canadian civics and values to new immigrants, and we haven't been doing that as a society.

The measure of man is not what he appropriates from society but what he bequeaths to society.