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.

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

If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

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.

Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?