Without law in some form, and also without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily and naturally. The rebellions of two-year-olds and teenagers are in our hardwiring, and we have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against – to test our mettle.

Richard Rohr, Falling Upward, 26

 ¢â‚¬Å½’As Rilke put “When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small”. Ibid.

Facebook comment: “I fondly remember comment from Michael Norman (educator) who described the best rules as like the walls of an ever expanding pipe. The walls would restrain those who “kicked over the traces” but even tempered kids would just see ever expanding horizons.”