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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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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?
Ken Robinson
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You can think of creativity as applied imagination.
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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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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
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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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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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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.
Ken Robinson
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Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.
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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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Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.
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School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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To be creative you actually have to do something.
Ken Robinson
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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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It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.
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We are educating people out of their creative capacities.
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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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What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.
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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.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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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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Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
Ken Robinson