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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

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.

History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.

Negative stimulus may paralyze positive life.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

Beware the man of the single book

I believe every young women needs to know that though you may have to struggle and strive to achieve your dreams, you can have oodles of fun along the way.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.

There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.