There was a great interview in the Spring 2009 Converge Magazine with Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson. Some key quotes are: 

- What is scientific literacy? "When you hear information, you have to understand: What is the context in which that information is being delivered?"

- "Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow."

- With science, creativity means "Since everyone has nature to answer to, you’re creativity is simply discovering something about the natural world that somebody else would have eventually discovered exactly the same way. They might have come through a different path, but they would have landed in the same place."

- "The best educators are the ones that inspire their students."

- The problem with schools is "There remains a culture that equates high grades with success in school and correlates success in school with success in life."

- Most talented people did not get straight 'A's. "The education system is deeply flawed because it’s only trying to get straight A’s out of people. There’s got to be some other way to measure who’s going to succeed and who isn’t."