You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don’t do music. You’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken.

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

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

Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.