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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

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Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.

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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

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Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

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You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

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Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

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Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Educator

Born: March 4th, 1950

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