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

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.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.