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.

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.

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.