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Adams, Adler, Ailey, Aristotle, Balanchine, Bach, Beethoven, Calder, Carver, Chaplin, Copurnicus, cummings, Curie, Darwin, Da Vinci, De Mille, Diaghilev, Dickins, Disney, Eames, Einstein, Erickson, Escher, Euclid, Faraday, Fermi, Feynman, Ford, Freud, Galileo, Gates, Goodall, Graham, Hawking, Hayden, Huxley, Keller, Klee, Leaky, Marsalas, Mead, Miller, Montessori, Mozart, Moses, Muir, Nash, Newton, O’Keefe, Pasteur, Pauling, Pavorotti, Pei, Piaget, Picasso, Remington, Rodin, Salk, Schultz, Chief Seattle, Silverstein, Socrates, Steinbeck, Stravinski, Tesla, Tharp, Van Gough, Warhol, Webber, Wright,...
These people are just a few of the wonderful geniuses who have contributed to our world. If you do not know who they are, look them up.
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Creative Genius Publications
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Woodridge, Illinois 60517 |
Genius and Creativity
The word genius has come to mean extraordinary intellect. But the true meaning of genius has more to do with the spirit or essence of a place or thing. This spirit can be embodied in a person. We at Creative Genius Publications work to nurture the unique spirit of creativity, exploration, artistic expression, and the joy of play.
Our world is expanding further and faster than ever before. Our exposure to diverse cultures and peoples can enrich our lives and expand our thinking. Biology tells us that diversity is essential to survival in times of stress. If you only eat potatoes, potato blight can push your species to extinction. If you eat a variety of plants, your ability to survive the loss on one species is greater.
Diversity allows life to adapt to change. this is why it is so important for us to resist the temptation of standardization.
Children should be allowed to excel in the gifts they enjoy, not forced to develop a predetermined set of skills. The world needs scientists and engineers but we also need poets and dancers. All gifts should be nurtured.
Children should be allowed to try things and fail. That is where the real learning takes place. It is in taking risks and trying new adventures that girls and boys grow into competent women and men. Creative Genius Publications supports the idea that failure is necessary and useful. A colleague once told Thomas Edison that several thousand experiments had been failures. Alva said, "Failures? Not at all. We've learned several thousand things that won't work."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Alva Edison
People should be allowed to excel in the gifts they enjoy.
People should be allowed to try things and fail.
It is a wide and wondrous world in which we live. The Creative Genius wants to smell the roses, climb the mountains, and conquer the challenges.
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The book SPARKS Ignite Imagination was born of this belief in the uniquness of the individual spirit. It turned out to be a unique kind of book. It’s not exactly a sketchbook. It’s not really a journal. It’s a book on creative thinking, it’s a self help book, and it’s an activity book. I hope it is a tool anyone can use to spark creative genius.
I have been very pleased with the results and I hope you will be too!
Nancy Illing M.S., M.Ed.
About the Author
Nancy Illing has spent her life learning and teaching. She has over 30 years experience teaching in public and private settings. Nancy has taught everyone from infants to adults, the gifted to the challenged. She has taught a variety of subjects from the Alphabet to Probability, Anatomy to Creative Writing, and Ballet to Swimming. She has undergraduate degrees in Education and Special Education and earned two masters degrees in Instructional Leadership and Educational Administration.
"There is an energy in the learning process that is hard to put into words. There is joy in witnessing the unfolding of understanding, the brain change that comes with the a-ha moment after a long struggle. I just want to be there when it happens."
Nancy Illing, Educator and Author
Questions? email Creative Genius Publications
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