33 quotes found
“Creativity is as important as literacy”
“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”
“The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.”
“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
“Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.”
“The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.”
“The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.”
“Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passion often matters more If you love doing something, youll be constantly drawn to get better at it.”
“Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.”
“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”
“Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department, doing physics or chemistry, does. So why is it that in...”
“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personaliz...”
“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.”
“Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they...”
“We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is ba...”
“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.”
“The mistake that many policymakers make is to believe that in education the best way to face the future is by improving what they did in the past. There are three major processes in education: the ...”
“Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and garden...”
“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.”
“Death Valley wasn't dead at all. It was asleep. It was simply waiting for the conditions of growth. When the conditions came, life returned to the heart of Death Valley.Human beings and human commu...”
“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.”
