Ken Robinson Quotes
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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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Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.
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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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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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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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Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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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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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
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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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Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
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A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.
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If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.
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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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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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Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems.
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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.