The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.