T.1 Creativity and Education
Understanding Creativity through Quotations of the Creative
Negativity seems to be the theme of many of the quotes in my collection. We need some hope that education can be improved. Golda Meir wrote: "A teacher is one who has a program.....arithmetic, reading, writing, and so on....fulfills it conscientiously, and feels that he had done his job. An educator tries to give children something else in addition: Spirit." Albert Einstein wrote: “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.” And so for Golda Meir and Albert Einstein, if we can maintain spirit and freedom for our students, maybe we have a chance. Organized education should enable continued self-education. Education should not place future limits on students. The creative process requires observation, curiosity, problem recognition, tenacity, and belief that they can solve problems that are in their self interest. Robert Maynard Hutchins said: "The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
TYPE QUOTES
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
-Jean Piaget
The mere imparting of information is not education.
-Carter G. Woodson
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-Will Durant
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats
SELECTED QUOTES
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
-Walt Disney
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
-Doris Lessing
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
-Jean Piaget
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
-Henry David Thoreau
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-Will Durant
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-Anatole France
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
-Isadora Duncan
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
-Beatrix Potter
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
-George Bernard Shaw
A teacher is one who has a program.....arithmetic, reading, writing, and so on....fulfills it conscientiously, and feels that he had done his job. An educator tries to give children something else in addition: Spirit.
-Golda Meir
The mere imparting of information is not education.
-Carter G. Woodson
The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
-Thomas Edison
You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.
-Matt Drudge
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-Will Durant
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
-Burt Bacharach
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats
By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn’t this way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers- all depending on what you’re looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.
-Roger Von Oech
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
-George Washington Carver
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school.
-Irving Langmuir
The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
-Freeman Dyson
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
-Confucius
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-Alvin Toffler
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
-Zora Neale Hurston
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
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.
-Madeleine L'Engle
If so, and my experience does not permit me to doubt it, the essential business and duty of a teacher, is to find out the inclination of his pupils, and teach them any and all the useful lessons he may find they study with pleasure.
-William Maclure, Geologist and author of first geologic map of eastern North America
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
-Nietzsche
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
-Dr. Seuss
He is a poor pupil who does not surpass his master.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
-Burrhus Frederic Skinner
SELECTED POSTERS
The above posters are (A - E) from my poster collection. I will be publishing more posters later. The following table Displays the position of these posters in my classification of Phases and Topics of the Creative Process. My posts will follow the order of the following table. This post is T.1 on the Education and Creativity. It is T point 1 because I have many more posters on this topic and anticipate posting more as T.2 etc.
……………………………………More Quotes T.2 Education and Creativity…………………………………………
List of the Phases and Topics correlated to the Steps in the Scientific Method. These phases and topics have been derived from study of quotations from many creative individual from many fields of endeavor.
My goal is to publish quote poster collections on A through W as individual posts, eventually. Currently my quote collection numbers over 4,000 and my poster collection includes nearly 1,400 different individuals. I have created over 50 posters for each Phase and Topic listed in the above table. Advise and wisdom from as many individuals as possible is my goal. These quotes and the posters have driven the classification above. - Apply for a free subscription. Thanks Walt.
The next phase of the process is labeled U.1 Definition of Creativity
Walter H Pierce