Ken Robinson Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

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

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Teamwork, Learning

• There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

  Ken Robinson

  Country, Teacher, Educational

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

• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  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.

• 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

• Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, School

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2015). “Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education”, p.9, Penguin

• The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Real, School

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

• When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.

  Ken Robinson

  Running, School, Son

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.21, Penguin

• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, School, Thinking

• Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.

  Ken Robinson

  Teacher, Educational, School

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

• You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don’t do music. You’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Jobs, Motivation

  "How Do Schools Kill Creativity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 3, 2014.

• Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Mind, Sometimes

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.146, Penguin

• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Ideas, Discipline

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.160, Penguin

• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Thinking, Keys

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