Ken Robinson Quotes
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We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.
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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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Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.
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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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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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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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Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
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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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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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In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.
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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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Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.
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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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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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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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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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Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.
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Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
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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.