Ken Robinson Quotes
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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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Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.
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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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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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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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A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.
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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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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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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.