Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doing so they changed the whole basis on which the old questions had been framed.
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
Creativity is as important as literacy
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
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.
Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.
The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or...
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
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. There never was.
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 most distinctive features of human intelligence is...
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human...
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
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 educate our children and ourselves.
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 underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in t...
One problem with the systems of assessment that use letters and grades is that they are usually light on description and heavy on comparison. Students are sometimes given grades without really knowing...
Showing 1 to 20 of 24 results