Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

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

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.