Creativity is as important as literacy.

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.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

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

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.