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.
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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.
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.
We are educating people out of their creative capacities.
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
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.
