Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

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.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.