People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

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

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

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

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