All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

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.

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.