Occupation: Author Birth: March 4, 1950
It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp..
In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fu….
If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical te….
Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat..
It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck ….
If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes f….
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 ….
Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up..
Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never c….
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind..
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..
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests..
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batchi….
School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes pos….
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. Th….
You can think of creativity as applied imagination..
If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking,….
All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities..
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 ….
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original..
Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few..