Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

The adults were completely wrong.

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.