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… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them. — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, the modern mind has a distorted image of itself that leads it to neglect some of its own most valuable… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map. — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
“Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones. — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively. — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
