Guy Claxton Quotes

#1. It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.

Joe Meno

#2. Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

Guy Claxton

#3. 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 in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own ... they lose the plot.

Guy Claxton

#4. If you walk with the Lord on earth, you also will walk with Him in Heaven. If you walk away from the Lord on earth, you will walk away from Him, right into eternity.

Greg Laurie

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

Guy Claxton

#6. You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

J. Cole

#7. If we want young people to develop the habits of thinking for themselves, using their imagination, being open to new ideas, saying when they don't understand, and exploring real challenges together, then they have to see their teachers doing the same thing.

Guy Claxton

#8. It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

Yoshihiko Noda

#9. Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

Guy Claxton

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

Guy Claxton

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

Guy Claxton

#12. There is no power greater than true affection.

Seneca The Younger

#13. I have nothing to give anyone, really. It's the one gift I can give that has any kind of value. It makes me feel worthy.

Fisher Amelie

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

Guy Claxton

#15. Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#16. Love is the best drug, bar none.

Crystal Woods

#17. 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