Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

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.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

It is destiny which takes you to people who have the answers to your questions.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.

I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.