If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.