Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.

The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.

We are made kind by being kind.

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

We put our faith in love.

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too

Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.

Taj Mahal was built as a team; without a team, it was a far dream.