If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

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.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

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.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

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

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

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.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.

Determination can be a battle or a thrill. Choose to be thrilled.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

You drool when you sleep.

People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.