Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

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.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.