Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

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

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

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

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

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.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.