Brows Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

— Ludwig von Mises

There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids…

— Caity Lotz

“Artistic teachers can, on a sudden desire stop teaching, and turn a class upside down by making students laugh. They can create galaxies on…

— Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

“I argued that exploring the world with our hands, testing out ideas by building them, role playing, and countless other activities are all natural…

— Tim Brown

In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with…

— Betty Edwards

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as…

— Idries Shah

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Children and adolescents, being relatively new to life, are naturally creative because they haven't been brainwashed, so to speak, by the conventional attitudes of…

— Thomas Armstrong

If it is the case that our activities depend on how we ourselves see them, what we believe about them, then if we have…

— Paul Q. Hirst

We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their…

— Seymour Papert

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

— Amber Riley

Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the gap between…

— Seymour Papert