Ken Robinson Quotes
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Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.
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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
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You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?
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You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
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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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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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The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.
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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.
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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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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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There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.
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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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If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.
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Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
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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 combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.
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We get educated out of creativity.
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Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?
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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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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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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.
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Creativity is as important as literacy.
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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.