Ken Robinson Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Believe, Imagination

• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Passion, Keys

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

• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Kids, Childhood

• You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

• Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Growing Up, Imagination

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

• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Community, Needs

  "How schools stifle creativity" by Ken Robinson, www.cnn.com.

• All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, School, Thinking

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.19, Penguin

• If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Light, Curiosity

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

  Ken Robinson

  Dream, Children, Feet

• Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Careers, Balance

• There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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