The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.

- Guy Claxton

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

- Guy Claxton

Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, i…

- Guy Claxton

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learn…

- Guy Claxton

Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.

- Guy Claxton

Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

- Guy Claxton

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people…

- Guy Claxton

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

- Guy Claxton