Ken Robinson Quotes
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A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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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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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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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 primary gift of human consciousness.
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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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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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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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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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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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Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat...
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.