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

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.