The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

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

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.