If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

We get educated out of creativity.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

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.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.