If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

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 you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.