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.

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

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

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.

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.

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