Life-long process of individual unfolding, involving better understanding of one's true self, of the meaning and purpose of one's life, and of one's mutuality with fellow humans and with the rest of nature.
29. CREATIVE EDUCATION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
“Education,” as the human
development process is widely
understood and practiced,
focuses primarily on acquisition
and manipulation of job related
knowledge and skills
– job preparation.
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discover our true nature as humans
and persons – our strengths, interests,
values, passions, and motivations …
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35. CREATIVE EDUCATION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
Here’s a selection of provocative
insights, intriguing perspectives, and
alternative proposals brought together to
encourage and expand meaningful
conversations about teaching and
learning, generally; and, specifically,
about self-discovery, personal
development, and right career choice –
developing and profitably engaging
one’s unique abilities in ways and things
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41. CREATIVE EDUCATION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
“One of the highest priorities of
education must be to create a
population of global citizens who
are capable of creative, complex,
critical, and visionary thinking.”
-Berenice Bleedorn and Frank Maraviglia
42. CREATIVE EDUCATION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
“Education is what remains
after one has forgotten what
one has learned in school.”
-Albert Einstein
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46. CREATIVE EDUCATION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
“Throughout … the world, students are
complaining – and increasing numbers of
educators are concurring – that their education is
‘rootless and irrelevant.’ It seems superficial; it
does not provide a true and meaningful basis for
life. They are not satisfied with ‘the solemn foolery
of scholarship for scholarship’s sake’; they want
more than intellectual knowledge, more than
vocational and professional training, more than
words and concepts, more than indoctrination into
a society and culture which they are finding
increasingly difficult to believe in and accept.”
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51. CREATIVE EDUCATION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
“Education is being viewed in
modern society – whether we
openly admit it or not – primarily
as preparation for a job in the
mainstream economy.”
-Willis Harman and George Hormann
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53. CREATIVE EDUCATION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
“[Modern] educators have ceased to
be concerned with questions of
ultimate truth or meaning and (apart
from mere vocational training) are
interested solely in the dissemination
of a rootless and irrelevant culture,
and the fostering of the solemn foolery
of scholarship for scholarship’s sake.”
-Aldous Huxley
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58. CREATIVE EDUCATION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
“Everyone has, simply by existing, a right
to be [creative]. And to be provided with a
way to become consistently [creative].
This is a right that must be recognized
and held sacred. Above all, the necessary
conditions for the exercise of that right
must be available. This is society’s
mission and the primary obligation of its
leaders.”
–Luis Machado
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60. CREATIVE EDUCATION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
“The principal goal of education is to create
men and women who are capable of doing
new things, not simply of repeating what
other generations have done – men and
women who are creative, inventive,
discoverers. The second goal of education is
to form minds which can be critical, can verify
and not accept everything they are offered.”
–Jean Piaget
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68. CREATIVE EDUCATION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
“Students are usually better
rewarded for regurgitating
information than for playing with
ideas and thinking originally. As a
consequence people feel more
comfortable following the rules than
challenging them.”
-Roger von Oech
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72. CALL TO ACTION
Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Right Career Choice
How shall we educate our
students, and ourselves also,
so that everyone is able to find,
to follow, and to fulfill his or
her passion, his or her path,
his or her purpose in life; and,
also, make a living in the
