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The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

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

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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 e...more

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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.

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Creativity is as important as literacy

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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. ...more

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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...more

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We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batchin...more

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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

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Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.

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Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passion often matters more… If you love doing something,...more

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Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department, doing p...more

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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. The...more

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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

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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 ...more