Ken Robinson Quotes
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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.
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"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves"
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Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
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I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.
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That is when they become most vulnerable -- when they are on the run -- because they can't plan, they can't coordinate, they can't rehearse, and if you constantly keep them on the run, you can whittle them down instead of them whittling you down.
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Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
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These are typically former special operations community personnel who are highly trained in the use of deadly force, also in surveillance detection and also in risk avoidance.
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Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.
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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us.
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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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We get educated out of creativity.
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Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
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In those locations, where that type of support could be located -- and then a unilateral action would occur by Iraqis or the United States government -- that would seriously escalate our problems with the Syrian government.
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What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
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You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.
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Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
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Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
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Had anyone reported this -- had we reported it, or had it gotten out -- it would have enabled them to know that they had the exact grid coordinate they needed.
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I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.
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The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.