Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
From Ken Robinson
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?
Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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