Ken Robinson Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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• We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

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

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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.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Kids, Childhood

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• We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Math, Discipline

  Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.166, Penguin UK

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• The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

  Ken Robinson

  Believe, Teaching, Creativity

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.184, John Wiley & Sons

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• You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

  Ken Robinson

  Development, Outcomes, Farmers

  "How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 17, 2012.

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• Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Unique, Past

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.44, Penguin

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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.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Community, Needs

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

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• Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Ideas, Different

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• You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, People, Giving

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• 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

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• What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

  Ken Robinson

  Past, Needs, Done

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• You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

  Ken Robinson

  Athlete, Creative, Mind

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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.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Play, Imagination

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.54, Penguin

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• Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.

  Ken Robinson

  Needs, Transformed

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

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• We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.

  Ken Robinson

  Imagination, Feelings, Intuition

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.15, Penguin

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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.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

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

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• Creativity is as important as literacy.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Entrepreneur, Important

  "The Destruction of Democracy and Creativity in Our Schools: Mission Accomplished" by Arnold Dodge, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

  Ken Robinson

  Love, Passion, Loving What You Do

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• Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Ken Robinson (2017). “Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative”, p.128, John Wiley & Sons

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• Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

  Ken Robinson

  Mean, Creative, Ifs

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• If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.

  Ken Robinson

  Spirit, Hours, Minutes

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• We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

  Ken Robinson

  Energy, Body, Spirit

  "Bring on the learning revolution!". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. February, 2010.

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• You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

  Ken Robinson

  Philosophy, Math, Engineering

  "TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered". blog.ted.com. August 12, 2009.

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• All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

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