Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.