Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

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

Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

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

Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.

I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.