Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.