Kathy Hirsh-Pasek famous quotes

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.
-- Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

#Creative #Innovation #Canvas

What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.
-- Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

#Kids #Today #Environment

We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.
-- Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

#School #Mean #Kids

If Rip Van Winkle came back, there's only one institution he would recognize: "Oh! That's a school. Kids are still sitting in rows, still listening to the font of wisdom at the front of the classroom."
-- Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

#Rip #School #Kids

Collaboration is everything from getting along with others to controlling your impulses so you can get along and not kick someone else off the swing. It's building a community and experiencing diversity and culture. Everything we do, in the classroom or at home, has to be built on that foundation.
-- Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

#Home #Diversity #Community

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.
-- Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

#Communication #Language

Learning isn't just K-12. It starts prenatally. If you get a bead on what your children are and aren't being exposed to at school, that will suggest the kinds of experiences you want your children to have outside of school.
-- Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

#Children #School #Kind

Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.
-- Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

#Thinking #Critical Thinking #Rely

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.