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.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

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

It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.