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.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

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.

To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

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