Creativity In Education Quotes:

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

- Ken Robinson

source: "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.

topic: Learning, Creativity, Important, Education And Literacy, Creativity And Learning

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Creativity, Forever, Innovation, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Life Wisdom

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Joy Of Learning

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

- Ken Robinson

source: "How Do Schools Kill Creativity?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 3, 2014.

topic: Education, Motivation, Inspiration, Creativity In Education

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Creativity, People, Unique Experiences, Creative People

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Inspiring, Teacher, Learning, Creative People, Inspiration And Creativity

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Math Education, Inspirational Education

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Education, Inspirational Learning

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

- Antony Jay

source: Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

topic: Inspirational, Educational, Creative, Questions Asked, Answering Questions

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Secret Life, Creativeness

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.

- Alex Faickney Osborn

source: Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

topic: Appreciation, Art, Flower, Nurturing, Life Style

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Forward In Life, Math Education

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Teacher, Appreciation, Flower, Delicate Flower, Creativity In Education

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Success, Education, Money, Makin Money, Good Money

The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a "wholesome personality" are inevitably their own.

- Joel Henry Hildebrand

topic: Creativity, Personality, Individuality, Disservice, Creativity In Education

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Educational, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Learning

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Creativity, People, Creative, Unique Experiences, Creative People

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Education, Teacher, Appreciation, Teacher Student, Student Learning

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business