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

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.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

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.

Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.