Occupation: Author Birth: March 4, 1950
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status..
To be creative you actually have to do something..
These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the differenc….
Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress..
A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old..
Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimula….
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm..
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth.
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..
If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance..
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth..
One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturall….
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future..
Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself..
You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish..
We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For ….
Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most….
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….
Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence..
I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richne….
Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it rig….