Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.