The Minister of Education Maia Sandu said in her welcoming speech that LEGO toys help children become creative, inventive and teaches them to work together.
Dr. Treisman, a former MacArthur fellow who grew up in Brooklyn, is famous for developing inventive ways to teach math to minority students.
In his brief career (all his extant paintings date from the last five years of his life) this highly inventive young artist taught his contemporaries and successors how to exploit the medium of oil paint to create the illusion of textures, light, and air in their paintings.
His teaching style was inventive and dynamic, often requiring his students to improvise and move in unusual, exaggerated, and distinctly unballetic ways.
For an educational outing that is actually fun, the Exploratorium in the Marina District (3601 Lyon Street, 415-561-0360; www.exploratorium.edu) features inventive, hands-on exhibits that teach kids about science and perception.
He went to catering college in Glasgow, got his first job in Gordon Ramsay's Amaryllis and, after his stint at the Connaught, took off to France for three years to work for Michel Bras in Laguiole where he was taught the precise, inventive cuisine that has made Restaurant Bras into one of the top gastronomic destinations in the world.
Inventive thinking can not be "taught" in the traditional sense of the word, but it can be experienced and nurtured through the various forms of artistic expression.
Colleagues and pupils described him as a "legend" with a genius for innovative teaching, outstanding pastoral work and inventive drama.
Singing the bass part taught me so much about Stravinsky's astoundingly inventive harmony.
Wonderfully inventive in his own fiction, Pennac resorts to old-fashioned methods in his teaching.
