Ken Robinson Quotes

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• The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

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  Jobs, Growth, Doe

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• To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

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  Teacher, Art, Educational

  "Why We Need to Reform Education Now". "Why We Need to Reform Education Now" by Ken Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

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• The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

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  Ideas, Creative, Leader

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• The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

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  Children, Passion, Keys

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.154, Penguin

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• Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

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  Education, Jobs, Future

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• Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Creative

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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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  Children, Light, Curiosity

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• Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

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  Education, Teamwork, Learning

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• Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

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  Heart, Creative, Progress

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2015). “Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education”, p.94, Penguin

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• The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

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  Education, Real, Command And Control

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• Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

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  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.

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• Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

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  Achievement, Curiosity, Engines

  "How to escape education's death valley". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. April, 2013.

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• If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

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  Creative, Ifs

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• Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

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  Multiple Choice, Choices, Soul

  "Fertile minds need feeding". Interview with Jessica Shepherd, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2009.

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• Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

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  Helping, Talent, Life Is

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• Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.

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  People, World, Enough

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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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  Teaching, Creativity, Self Confidence

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.270, John Wiley & Sons

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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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  Moving, Agriculture, People

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• Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

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  People, Talent, Achieve

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.9, Penguin

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• Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

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  Dream, Children, Feet

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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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  Forever, World, This World

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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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  School, Thinking, Keys

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• Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

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  Teaching, Creativity, Tasks

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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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  Motivational, Learning, Creativity

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.131, Penguin

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• Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

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  Inspirational, Educational, Law Of Attraction

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