“Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.” MenMadeSelfSchoolCreativePathTeacherGrowingLandGeniusTraditionalRoutinePupilsBreedingIngeniousSelf MadeInaccessibleCreativenessDeviateNew PathsCreative Genius Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist
“An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.” WritingSometimesLiteratureCareersCreativeTeacherEventsStudentsProduceOne DayMethodRemainsDemocraticWorkersGreedHungerFactoriesWorthwhileClientsCreative WritingFarmingImmuneTherapistsGreat WritersSentimentalityCounselingDemocratic SocietyFactory FarmingErraticAnathema Author:Alain de Botton
“I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.” WayTwoVoiceCreativeTeacherSillyPerformingDestructiveBe CreativeTwo Ways Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.” NeedsHumansHandsPastChoicesIndividualChallengesCreativityNovelCreativeTeacherAchieveBuildingMajorsModelsCommitmentInnovationInsightInquiryContinuityLearnersCollaboratorsHuman KnowledgeCreative Life Author:Vera John-Steiner
“In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.” WayChildrenJobsChallengesQualitySupportCreativeTeacherCapableIntelligentAppropriate Author:Louise Boyd
“I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.” MenWorldBelieveUniverseJesusI BelieveMoralCreativeTeacherI Believe InInnate Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.” KnowsChildrenDoeArtJoyValuesUnderstandingMoralCreativeKnowingTeacherExpressionWasteCapableIntellectualAskingLongingAppreciationValuableSupremeArtisticQuestioningPupilsImpartAsking QuestionsValuable ThingsCreative ExpressionKnowledge And Understanding Author:Albert Einstein
“A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.” WritingCreativeTeacherCreative WritingGood Writers Author:Richard Hugo
“I became really creative around the time I started understanding that people could be creative with music and that that was allowed. I stated taking piano lessons at age five, but I never did what my piano teacher told me to do. I would just do whatever I wanted.” PeopleAgeWantedUnderstandingCreativeFiveTeacherLessonsPianoBe CreativePiano LessonPiano Teachers Author:Michael Angelakos
“I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.” FeelsLooksMaySometimesKidsCreativeTeacherReadyVulnerable Author:Jan Brett
“Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.” GivingChanceCreativeTeacherStudentsPrivacyCreative Life Author:Jan Brett
“I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.” ThinkingWayWritingPersonsBookEndsCertainBornCreativeTeacherAmountI've LearnedFavouriteCreative WritingBest TeacherFavourite Book Author:Markus Zusak
“Within the yogic philosophy, the edge is considered to be my creative teacher from whom I can learn about myself. If I approach this teacher/edge with love, sensitivity and awareness, I will discover that my teacher/edge will move and allow me a greater range of motion.” IfsI CanPhilosophyMovingCreativeGreaterTeacherAwarenessApproachEdgesRangeSensitivity Author:Ken Dychtwald
“The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.” GivingChildrenEnoughCan DoCreativeTeacherTaughtConcernedImpulseFlamesProvidingVocationOxygenWorking With Children Book:A Circle of Quiet Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?” ThinkingKnowsShouldWritingLittlesLastsGuyCreativeSawsTeacherPleaseLaborBlindCombatCampsCreative WritingConfinedHarpsInstructorsIliad Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.” WritingClassCreativeTeacherSpecialCollegePraiseEnjoyedCreative WritingEnglish Teacher Author:John Brandon
“The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.” HelpingCreativeTeacherIdentityHabitEgoHelping OthersFlexibleResilientWhatever Works Author:Robert Thurman