My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

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

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.

We get educated out of creativity.

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

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.