Some of the most accomplished people of our times failed their [school exams]. Many still think of themselves as closet failures and succeeded only when they had recovered from, or rebelled against, their education.

Recognising the variety that exists within creative intelligence is the key to a new understanding of human resources. For the past 20 years, environmentalists have argued that we have damaged the natural ecology of the earth's resources. We have not understood how rich these resources are, not how they enrich each other. I think we have been making the same mistake with people. We have spent years partially educating our children: the result is adults who have lost touch with, or never discovered, their own creative, intellectual and emotional abilities. If we are serious about developing human resources, we have to recognise how rich and diverse they really are.

Excerpted from "A Stream of Inventive"
People Management, published on 17 June 1999

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