The having of wonderful ideas is what I consider to be the essence of intellectual development. p. 218

Wonderful ideas cannot spring out of nothing. They build on a foundation of other ideas. p. 222-223

Wonderful ideas build on other wonderful ideas. They are not had without content. . .Schools and teachers can provide materials and questions in ways that suggest things to be done with them; and children, in doing, cannot help being inventive.

There are two aspects of providing occasions for wonderful ideas. . . One is being prepared to accept children's ideas. The other is providing a setting which suggests wonderful ideas to children. . p. 224

When children are afforded the occasions to be intellectually creative -- by being offered matter to be concerned about intellectually and by having their ideas accepted -- then not only do they learn about the world, but their general intellectual ability is stumulated as a happy side effect. p. 229

    by Eleanor Duckworth     in (May, 1972). The having of wonderful ideas. Harvard Educational Review.