Creativity In Education Quotes

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

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

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

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