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

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

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

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

Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.