If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.
Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.
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.
One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.
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.
Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don’t know what they are capable of achieving.
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.
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
Our task is to educate our children’s whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.
What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.
Some dreams truly are ‘impossible dreams.’ However, many aren’t. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.
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.
The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.