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

If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.

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.

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

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

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

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