Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

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

Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

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