What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

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.

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

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

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

It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.