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.

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

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.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

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

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.