Quotes About Innovation

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

Creative teams are dynamic.

Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.

Learning in and about the arts is essential to intellectual development.

Many schools are organized as they are because they always have been, not because they must be.

Because when enough people move, that is a movement. And if the movement has enough energy, that is a revolution. And in education, that's exactly what we need.

One of the essential problems for education is that most countries subject their schools to the fast?food model of quality assurance when they should be adopting the Michelin model instead. The future for education is not in standardizing but in customizing; not in promoting groupthink and "deindividuation" but in cultivating the real depth and dynamism of human abilities of every sort. For the future, education must be Elemental.

There are three related ideas, which I will elaborate as we go on. They are imagination, which is the process of bringing to mind things that are not present to our senses; creativity, which is the process of developing original ideas that have value, and innovation, which is the process of putting new ideas into practice.

Uno de los enemigos de la creatividad y la innovación, en particular en relación con nuestro propio crecimiento, es el sentido común. El dramaturgo Bertolt Brecht dijo que cuando algo nos parece lo más evidente del mundo no hacemos ningún esfuerzo por entenderlo.

the emphasis on testing comes at the expense of teaching children how to employ their natural creativity and entrepreneurial talents—the precise talents that might insulate them against the unpredictability of the future in all parts of the world.

Creative teams are dynamic. Diversity of talents is important, but it is not enough. Different ways of thinking can be an obstacle to creativity. Creative teams find ways of using their differences as strengths, not weaknesses.

Creativity is a step beyond imagination because it requires that you actually do something rather than lie around thinking about it.

Many of the jobs that current systems of education were designed for are fast disappearing.

Groupthink can diminish the group as a whole.

education doesn't need to be reformed—it needs to be transformed.

To be globally competitive, developed countries must offer something qualitatively different, that is, something that cannot be obtained at a lower cost in developing countries. And that something is certainly not great test scores in a few subjects or the so-called basic skills."4

Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.

All technologies are neutral. What counts is who uses them and what they use them for. Any material, any tool in the hands of an artist, can result in a work of art.

The problem is that too often, and in too many ways, current systems of mass education are a catastrophe in themselves. Far from looking to the future, too often they are facing stubbornly towards the past.

I believe profoundly that we don't grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.

You can think of creativity as a conversation between what we're trying to figure out and the media we are using.

What Einstein seemed to understand is that intellectual growth and creativity come through embracing the dynamic nature of intelligence. Growth comes through analogy, through seeing how things connect rather than only seeing how they might be different.

I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value.