Ken Robinson Quotes
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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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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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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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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It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.
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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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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems.
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A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.
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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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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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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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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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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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.
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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.