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.

We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

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

When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.