The arts of memory are among the arts of thinking, especially involved with fostering the qualities we now revere as imagination and creativity.

The whole usefulness of education consists only in the memory of it.

It's hard to imagine today how we can ever get back to valuing the formation of memory in education.

Practitioners are, for the most part, taught to pick one side and they overwhelmingly choose that one side . . . obediently.

What best explains the ratchet effect is a lot of imitation and a little bit of innovation.

The ability to teach arises spontaneously at an early age without any apparent instruction and it is common to all human cultures.

Creativity is a consequence of expertise rather than expertise being a hindrance to creativity. To produce something novel and useful it is necessary first to master the previous knowledge in the domain.

Researchers discovered that, in a rapidly changing environment, copying the effective behaviors of knowledgeable others could be a much more effective learning strategy than learning directly from the environment.