School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes pos….

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our se….

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….

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer..

The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others..

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about re….

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education..

Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed..

If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should a….

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 en….

If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes f….

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up..

Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never c….

You can think of creativity as applied imagination..

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies..

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to….

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the differenc….

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..

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richne….