From a prominent educator author and founder of Harvard s Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is today s most essential real world skill and what young people need from parents teachers and employers to become the innovators of America s future In this groundbreaking book education expert Tony Wagner examines why innovation is imperative to our global competitiveness and profiles today s most compelling young innovators He reveals how they succeeded because of parents teachers and mentors whose unconventional methods nurtured and developed curiosity imagination creativity and initiative In their experiences Wagner discovered a surprisingly consistent pattern of play passion and purpose a childhood of unstructured play led to finding their passionsoften as adolescentsand the pursuit of those passions then evolved into a deeper and more mature sense of purpose as young adults It is this combination of play passion and purpose that is key to developing young people s innovative capacity Wagner then looks more widely at the education systemespecially collegesand how we can better parent teach mentor and manage young people to pick up where that system has failed He takes readers into the most innovative and cutting edge schools and workplaces in the country those that have been the most successful in fostering the skills needed for innovation collaboration critical thinking entrepreneurship and dynamic problem solving Throughout he emphasizes ways that play passion and purpose can be incorporated into the culture of home school and work The result is a timely and optimistic manifesto that will change how we look at innovation and the next generation s potential to be changemakers From a prominent educator author and founder of Harvards Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is todays most essential real world skill and what young people need from parents teachers and em
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