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

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.

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

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.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.