Occupation: Author Birth: March 4, 1950
It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for y….
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 ….
The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't en….
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated..
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 ….
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, a….
To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves a….
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, perso….
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education..
Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for ….
The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment….
Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive..
Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative..
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism….
What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever..
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly..
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture..
My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly..
One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense..
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education..