To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

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

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.