Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.

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

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.