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.

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.

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

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

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.