Creativity is as important as literacy
The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing tha...
Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
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.
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
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 beings are very different from motorcars, and they...
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.
Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.
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 to develop them.
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 whether you're running a hospital.
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
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 the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own...
You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can mak...
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.
