If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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.