Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.

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.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

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.

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

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.