The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

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.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.