Ken Robinson Quotes
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You can think of creativity as applied imagination.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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We are educating people out of their creative capacities.
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Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.
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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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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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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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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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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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Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.