Ken Robinson Quotes
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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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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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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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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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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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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.
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Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
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To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.
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Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat...
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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
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People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.