You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

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.

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.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.