Occupation: Author Birth: March 4, 1950
If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative..
We are educating people out of their creative capacities..
Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play..
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it..
Imagination is the source of all human achievement..
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?.
You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t….
Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer..
Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad….
Curiosity is the engine of achievement..
If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out o….
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about re….
We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the ….
Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our….
We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we ….
Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand….
I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make….
If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should a….
Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underesti….
You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job ….
There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to….