Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.

The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.