23 quotes that support focusing on creativity in education.

1. Whether in the public or the independent sector, inschools or at home, being creative in providing educationand promoting creativity are not dispensable luxuries.They are essential to enable us all to make lives that areworth living in.
Sir Ken Robinson

2. There is no doubt
that creativity is the
most important
human resource of
all. Without
creativity, there
would be no progress,
and we would be
forever repeating the
same patterns.
Edward de Bono

3. Every act of
creating is an
act of power,
an act of
hope.
Pam Grout

4. Without deviation
from the norm,
progress is not
possible.
Frank Zappa

5. Creativity is
intelligence
having fun.
Albert Einstein

6. We are all creative. Creativity is the hallmark humancapacity that has allowed us to survive thus far. Ourbrains are wired to be creative, and the only thingstopping you from expressing the creativity that isyour birthright is your belief that there are creativepeople and uncreative people and that you fall in thatsecond category. Shelley Carson

7. Creative activity isnot a superimposed,extraneous taskagainst which thebody, or brainprotests, but anorchestration ofjoyful doing.
Gyorgy Kepes

8. Creativity is for us all – it’s about you, me, and about
everyday life. It is about the abundant originality we
manifest, and our flexible improvisations, whether
teaching a class, raising our kids, fixing the car,
helping a client, landscaping the yard, planning a
benefit, or trying to figure out why we’re on earth.
Ruth Richards

9. I believe this passionately: that
we don't grow into creativity, we
grow out of it. Or rather, we get
educated out if it.
Ken Robinson

10. I can't understand why people are
frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened
by the old ones.
John Cage

11. To live a
creative life,
we must lose
our fear of
being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pierce

12. 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.
Ken Robinson

13. Creativity is as important as literacy and
numeracy, and I actually think people
understand that creativity is important - they
just don't understand what it is.
Ken Robinson

14. The principle goal of education is to create humans who
are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating
what other generations have done — humans who are
creative, inventive, and discoverers.
Jean Piaget

15. Educators must ask themselves, ‘To what degree do
I deliberately promote creativity?”
Susan Keller-Mathers

16. It is the supreme art of the teacher to
awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge. -Albert Einstein

17. 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.
Ken Robinson

18. Creativity seems to emergefrom multiple experiences,coupled with a well-
supported development ofpersonal resources,
including a sense of
freedom to venture beyondthe known.
Loris Malaguzzi

19. Everyone has huge creative capacities.
The challenge is to develop them. A
culture of creativity has to involve
everybody, not just a select few.
Sir Ken Robinson

20. The first task in teaching
for creativity in any field
is to encourage people
to believe in their
creative potential and to
nurture the confidence
to try.
Sir Ken Robinson

21. Teaching for
creativity involves
teaching creatively.
There are three
related tasks in
teaching for
creativity:
encouraging,
identifying and
fostering.
Sir Ken Robinson

22. Teaching for creativity aims to
encourage self-confidence,
independence of mind, and the
capacity to think for oneself.
Sir Ken Robinson

23. There is a difference betweenteaching through creativityand teaching for creativity.Good teachers know that theirrole is to engage and inspiretheir students. This is a
creative process in itself.
Sir Ken Robinson