Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

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.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.