The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.

Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.