A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. Its an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously.

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.