Warren Berger

“To the extent a school is like a factory,”

— Warren Berger

“Yes, we want a Silicon Valley,” she said, “but do we really want three hundred million people who actually think for themselves?”

— Warren Berger

“with others.” Bennett culls all of these bits59 and shares the best of them with the people at IDEO, or with a…

— Warren Berger

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged—it is barely…

— Warren Berger

“It can be a relief to know that, in coming up with fresh ideas, we don’t have to invent from scratch; we…

— Warren Berger

“As you make those daily choices about what to spend your time on and which possibilities to pursue, the author and consultant…

— Warren Berger

“The main premise of appreciative inquiry is that positive questions, focusing on strengths and assets, tend to yield more effective results than…

— Warren Berger

“I’ve always been very concerned with democracy. If you can’t imagine you could be wrong, what’s the point of democracy? And if…

— Warren Berger

If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

— Warren Berger

“What if our schools could train students to be better lifelong learners and better adapters to change, by enabling them to be…

— Warren Berger

“What might the potential for humans be if we really encouraged that spirit of questioning in children, instead of closing it down?…

— Warren Berger

“What would happen if this happens?’ I do that on my own—I do all of my exploring outside of school. Because in…

— Warren Berger

“Death to Core Competency,” suggests that whatever a company’s specialty product or service might be—whatever got you to where you are today—might…

— Warren Berger

Fear is the enemy of curiosity.

— Warren Berger

“Our grandfathers and great grandfathers18 built schools to train people to have a lifetime of productive labor as part of the industrialized…

— Warren Berger

“But the happiest people he encountered —including some living extremely modestly—had a strong connection to those around them. “They laughed and really…

— Warren Berger

“When you change one small thing32 and it works, it can help breed the confidence to change other things—including bigger ones.”

— Warren Berger

“Carlin died in 2008, but his daughter, the comedian and radio host Kelly Carlin,16 feels the vuja de way of looking at…

— Warren Berger

A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something…

— Warren Berger

“Why?”. Neurological research shows that merely wondering about an interesting question activates regions of the brain linked to reward-processing. Curiosity—the act of…

— Warren Berger

“you can’t help but feel uncomfortable,” because it becomes clear that fear of failure “keeps us from attempting great things . .…

— Warren Berger

“This works well under most circumstances, but when we wish to move beyond that default setting—to consider new ideas and possibilities, to…

— Warren Berger

A beautiful question shifts the way we think about something and often sets in motion a process than can result in change.…

— Warren Berger

“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it . . . if you think of,…

— Warren Berger

“This Why–What If–How progression—which can be identified in many stories of innovative breakthroughs—is”

— Warren Berger