Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

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

When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

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