If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.