Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

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.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.