Ken Robinson Quotes
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Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.
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Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
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If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
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You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.
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Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.
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The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
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We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.
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These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things.
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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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You can think of creativity as applied imagination.
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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.
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Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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We are educating people out of their creative capacities.
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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
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You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.
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What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.
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It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.
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Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.
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A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.
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Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.