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A series of visual/typographical representations of quotes related to learning, creativity & design. by Punya Mishra punyamishra.com


INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE WISDOM FORESIGHT

is not

… knowledge is not

… and wisdom is not

Arthur C. Clarke

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Every child is an artist.

THE PROBLEM IS HOW to remain an artist once WE GROW UP. Pablo Picasso

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EVERY CHILD IS AN ARTIST

THE PROBLEM IS HOW WE GROW UP

TO REMAIN AN ARTIST WHEN

PABLO PICASSO

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ART IS LITERACY

OF THE HEART ELLIOT EISNER

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our language limits our cognition The limits of

do not define the of

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THE ARTS TEACH

children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer Elliot W. Eisner

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THE ARTS TEACH

children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have

MORE

than one answer Elliot W. Eisner

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The arts help children disclose poetic capacities learn to say what cannot be said.

When children are invited to

what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their

Ell

io

tW .E

isn

er

the job o d l il w t a th s rd o w e to find th

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DESIGN funny

is a

how it works

But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really

word. Some people think design means how it looks.

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DESIGN IS POETRY …much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to

edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify,

to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and

Paul Rand

perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into…

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THE ARTIFICIAL WORLD IS centered precisely on this interface between the inner and outer environments; it is CONCERNED WITH ATTAINING GOALS by adapting the former to the latter

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Every

NEW PATTERN NEW IDEAS

spot of pigment laid on the canvas creates some kind of

that provides a continuing source of

to the painter. The painting process is a process of cyclical interaction between painter and canvas in which current goals lead to new applications of paint, while the gradually changing pattern suggests a

NEW GOAL Herbert Simon

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in

SEEKING NEW EYES new landscapes, but in having

Marcel Proust

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Photo © Klaus Schulmann on Flickr


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MY DESTINATION IS NO LONGER A PLACE, RATHER

A NEW WAY

OF SEEING Marcel Proust


In order to understand the phenomena surrounding a new technology, we must open the question of

Dthe interaction E S I between GN UNDERSTANDING &CREATION Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores © punyamishra


As with most media from which things are built, whether the thing is a cathedral, a bacterium, a sonnet, a figure or a word processor,

ARCHITECTURE

DOMINATES

MATERIAL To understand clay is not 
 to understand the pot. What a pot is all about can be appreciated better by understanding the creators and users of the pot and their need both to inform the material with their meaning and to abstract meaning from the form

Alan Kay

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Whoever teaches

&

LEARNS TEACHING in the act of

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whoever learns

TEACHES LEARNING in the act of


DO THE BEST YOU

CAN YOU DO BETTER UNTIL

KNOW BETTER. THEN WHEN YOU KNOW BETTER,

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Maya Angelou


QUESTION THE ANSWER NEVER ASK A

TO WHICH YOU KNOW

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You don’t know what you know until you

BUILD

SOMETHING © punyamishra


You don’t

KNOW WHAT YOU BUILD you know until

something!

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IF YOU CAN’T

IMAGINE E IT R W TO T U O B A E R A U O Y T A H W ANYONE LINKING TO

DON’T WRITE IT

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow T. S. Eliot


WHEN?

HOW?

WHERE?

WHAT?

WH0?

WHY?

A FACT IS not something to remember but rather

A CONTESTABLE CLAIM © punyamishra

Mansilla & Gardner


Whether… or… or… ... teaching is always about TPACK © punyamishra


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The proper study of mankind is the science of design - Herbert Simon


I do not envy

PEOPLE ARE OBVIOUSLY WRONG

who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they

Salman Rushdie

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ee

cum

min gs

l u f i t u a e b e r o m a s k s a o h w r e w s n a the beautiful


creation play loves The

of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the

instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it

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Carl Jung


PROBLEMS ATTACK BACK worthy of

prove their worth by hitting

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Piet Hein


The goal of

A DESIGNER IS INVISIBLE visible’ Hillman Curtis

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to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to ‘make the


The goal of

A DESIGNER IS INVISIBLE visible’ Hillman Curtis

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to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to ‘make the


A USER IS A JOKE.

interface

like

If you have to explain it, it’s not that good. Martin LeBlanc

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THE THE THE details are not

details. They make

es m a es E

l Char

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d e s i g n


WE ARE

BUT A HABIT Aristotle

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what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,


The work you do while you

PROCRASTINATE

LIFE

is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your

Jessica Hische

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LEAVE IT BETTER than you found it

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Robert Baden-Powell


Where do new ideas come from?

CREATIVITY UNLIKELY The answer is simple:

comes from

juxtapositions

Nicholas Negroponte

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Where do new ideas come from?

CREATIVITY UNLIKELY The answer is simple:

comes from

juxtapositions

Nicholas Negroponte

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ONLY THE ABSURD ACHIEVE those who attempt

the impossible M.C. Escher

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The Buddha resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of the mountain, or in the petals of a flower Robert M. Pirsig


THE BUDDHA IN THE DIGITAL

RESIDES QUITE AS COMFORTABLY CIRCUITS OF A

COMPUTER OR THE GEARS OF A CYCLE TRANSMISSION AS HE DOES AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, OR IN THE PETALS OF A

FLOWER Robert M. Pirsig

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A designer knows

they have achieved

PERFECTION not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away Antoine de Saint-ExupĂŠry


Issey Miyake

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DESIGN IS not for philosophy, it’s LIFE


but is inseparable from the flower. Bob Stake

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BEAUTY LIES in the eye of the beholder,


Instead of pouring

KNOWLEDGE

into people's heads, you need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so they can see the world

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John Seely Brown


Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of

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OPERATING John Cleese


Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of

John Cleese

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OPERATING


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THE FORMULAIS THE PROBLEM M E L B O R P D E K C I W A F O N TIO

RITTEL & WEBER


ANY

PHILOSOPHY THAT CAN BE PUT

IN A NUTSHELL BELONG

Hillary Putnam 
 (or, maybe, Sydney Harris)

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S IN ONE


LEE SHULMAN

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SOMETIMES YOU THINK IN ORDER TO ACT SOMETIMES YOU ACT IN ORDER TO THINK


A NOVEL OR A POEM A PLAY REMAINS MERELY

INKSPOTS INTO MEANING-

ON PAPER UNTIL A READER TRANSFORMS THEM A SET OF

FUL SYMBOLS

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LOUISE ROSENBLATT


SPOON FEEDING

in the long run

TEACHES US NOTHING © punyamishra

E. M . Fo

ster

but the shape of the spoon


The

PROBLEM

can’t be defined until

THE SOLUTION HAS BEEN FOUND! © punyamishra

Rittel & Weber


T E —N S I O N but just the RIGHT amount Donald Norman

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C R E A T E

So what DOES a good teacher do?


Learning is least useful when it is private and hidden. It is most powerful 
 when it becomes public and communal - Lee Shulman

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Learning is least useful when it is private and hidden. It is most powerful when it becomes public and communal - Lee Shulman

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Learning is

powerful

least useful when it is private and hidden; it is most

when it becomes public and communal

Lee Shulman

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Learning is powerful

least useful when it is private and hidden; it is most

when it becomes public and communal

Lee Shulman

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Courtney Martin

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The reductive seduction of other people’s problems


We should never lose sight of the fact that children and teachers in class-rooms are conscious, sentient, and purposive human beings, so no scientific explanation of human behavior could ever be complete. In fact,

NO UNPOETIC DESCRIPTION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION CAN EVER BE COMPLETE David Berliner

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“Would you tell me, please,

WHICH WAY

I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don't much care where …” “Then it

DOESN’T MATTER which way you go.”

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— Lewis Carroll


For a point of view to have any

useful purpose,

you have to be completely committed to it and defend it to the death. And this even when a little voice is murmuring inside you at the same time

y l t h g i l o g t e l , y l t h g i t n o hold — Peter Brook

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Wisdom begins in wonder - Socrates


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Less, but better Dieter Rams


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#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf(“Code can aspire to elegance, 
 - Vikram Chandra"); return(0); }


Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones - Herbert Simon

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STEP 1: Breakfast STEP 2: TAKE OVER THE WORLD


EVERYONE DESIGNS

who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones

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EVERYONE DESIGNS who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones - Herbert Simon

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SCIENCE Psychology is a science, and

TEACHING

is an art, and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves. An intermediary inventive mind makes the application by using originality - William James

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ART


There is

one art, no more, no less: to do

all things with artlessness. 
 Piet Hein

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Theory and reality are only theoretically related

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Theory v.s. Practice ks or w g in th no t bu r, ea cl is g in h yt er Ev Theory:

Practice: Everything wo rks, but nothing is clea r … e c i t c a r p s t e e m y r Sometimes theo ! r a e l c s i g n i h t o n d …Nothing works an

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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is - Yogi Berra

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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is - Yogi Berra

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An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

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Howard Gardner


The Difference Between Theory And Practice is, in theory, somewhat smaller than in practice ~ Frank Westphal

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A moment’s thought

is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second

Piet Hein

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Image “Time After Time” © Prairie Kittin on Flickr

As eternity


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