If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

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

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

Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

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