Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

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

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

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

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