Creativity is as important as literacy.

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

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.