Student Creativity Quotes

The first rap that I wrote was about my Maths teacher, and as expected, he didn't like it, but the students loved it!

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round, and the whole class would listen.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I teach a 14-week semester, and one of the things I do when I have to teach literature is, for the first half hour of the class, I have the students write the beginning of a new story every week. At the end of the semester, even if they have learned nothing about literature, at least they'll have 14 beginnings that they can take with them.

I miss the classroom and the bit I miss the most is the one-on-one personal interactions with the students, those moments when they surprise you with their insightfulness, or their cheekiness.

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

I made short films in school.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

I'm always much more inspired by random people on the street. I live down by NYU and The New School, and I'd almost say close your eyes and pull a student out, and they're gonna be a little bit cooler than the average celebrity.

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.