Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

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

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

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