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

Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

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

We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.