All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

It's a start. I think what you hear is a willingness to go and do some of the unpopular things, eliminate routes.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.