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

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.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

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

One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.