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The key to success in the future is not what you know, but whether you are able to think and act creatively

– Mitchel Resnick

From Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner

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Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.' 

- Howard Gardner

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We teach and test things most students have no interest in and will never need, and facts that they can Google and will forget as soon as the test is over…Reimagining schools for the 21st-century must be our highest priority.

– Tony Wagner

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-need-a-job-invent-it.html?_r=2&

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The value of explicit information is rapidly dropping to zero. Today the real added value is what you can do with what you know

– Paul Bottino

From Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner

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' The key is to replace a belief in 'experts' who 'deliver' knowledge of what good teaching is to workshops with communities of teachers who learn through ongoing collaboration and practice.‘

- Dennis Sparks Nat Staff Dev Centre (US)

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All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. 

- John Dewey

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Most learning disabilities are actually teaching disabilities.

-Retired Teacher 

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To innovate, you have to question the status quo – rebel in a sense

– Semyon Dukach

From Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner

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‘What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.‘

- Howard Gardner

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Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.' 

- Robert Reich Former US Labor Secretary.

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Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

- Peter Senge

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Today, because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know.

– Tony Wagner

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-need-a-job-invent-it.html?_r=2&

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'School can be a torture or an instrument of inspiration.' 

- Higgins and Dolva 

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'Education is about helping children, who are capable of self reflection and self organisation, and of enjoying a life where they explore their abundant potential'. 

- Caine and Caine

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'Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.‘

- Albert Einstein 

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'To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.' 

- John Dewey

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'You cannot teach anybody anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves.‘

- Galileo

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'Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.' 

- Tom Peters

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'Don't go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.' 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Oh the places you’ll go! Congratulations today is your day.

You’re off to great places you’re off and away!You have brains in your head, you have feet

in you shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss

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Fail early and fail often – IDEO company motto