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.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

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

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