Ken Robinson Quotes
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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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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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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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A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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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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If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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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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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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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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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
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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.