Quotes About Creativity Education

#1. Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.

Criss Jami

#2. The mind is the greatest sacred paradise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Begin to read, write and think.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

Edward De Bono

#5. When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

Paulo Freire

#7. Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

Criss Jami

#8. A walk with nature awakens the mind of creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Today's thoughts and imaginations are tomorrow's reality. They will foster actions as the mother of all creativity.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.

Emmet Gowin

#11. Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.

Tim Hansen

#12. Creativity is the key to discovery.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

Galit Breen

#15. Consciousness and awareness are the sources of all possibilities and infinite creativity.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

K.K. Raghava

#17. When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#18. Solitude fosters creativity. Society enhances reactivity.

Debasish Mridha

#19. ...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.

John Wood

#20. In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Imagination is the source of all creativity.

Debasish Mridha

#22. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Jacob Bronowski

#23. I don't think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

Joichi Ito

#24. Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: How beautiful that is!

Paul Gauguin

#25. [The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#26. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

Albert Einstein

#27. Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#28. Creativity stands at the center of all education.

Bruno Bettelheim

#29. The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford ... Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.

Benjamin Hoff

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

Ken Robinson

#31. Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations

Gossy Ukanwoke

#32. I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned.

Grace Paley

#33. Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

Myles Horton

#34. Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.

Anthony Browne

#35. Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Wendy Kopp

#36. The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor ... to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.

Robert M. Pirsig

#37. To reignite creativity, innovation, and learning, leaders must rehumanize education and work. This means understanding how scarcity is affecting the way we lead and work, learning how to engage with vulnerability, and recognizing and combating shame.

Brene Brown

#38. Imagination is a divine creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.

Ken Robinson

#40. Creativity comes from curious, intuitive, persistent action.

Debasish Mridha

#41. We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Freeman Dyson

#42. Like taking a breath, learning was the simple and extraordinary result of being alive.

Zander Sherman

#43. When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.

Susan Vreeland

#44. You will discover all that pertains to life by reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Ryan Lilly

#46. Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.

Loris Malaguzzi

#47. Every child should be taught how to read, write and think.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#48. Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.

Andrew Linzey

#49. Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Beatrix Potter

#50. 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

#51. What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

#52. 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 show themselves.

Ken Robinson

#53. Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

Tony Buzan

#54. Sacred-thoughts flashes in your mind at sacred-time. If you don't write it immediately, it will be forgotten.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#55. [The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority.

Walter Karp

#56. When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.

Robert M. Pirsig

#57. 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.

Ken Robinson

#58. There is nothing better than expressions in words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch.

Sharon Salzberg

#60. Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

Jim Hunt