Ken Robinson Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  Children, Believe, Imagination

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• Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

  Ken Robinson

  Inspirational, Education, Lying

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

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• You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Creativity, Thinking

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.50, Penguin

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• Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Work, Passion

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.14, Penguin

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• One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

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  Motivational, Attitude, Opportunity

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• The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

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  Art, Math, Humanity

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.159, Penguin

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• The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.

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  Art, Ideas, Alive

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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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  Creativity, Common Sense, Innovation

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.29, Penguin

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• Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

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  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

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  Teacher, Principles, Three

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

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  Children, Growing Up, Imagination

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

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• Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

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  Creative, Curious, Born

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• If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

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  Failure, Creativity, Originality

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Educational, School

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

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• A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

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  Years, Three, Six Year Olds

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

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• I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

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  Believe, Capacity, Hope For The Future

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

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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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  School, Ideas, Discipline

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

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• The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.

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  Motivational, Alive, Feels

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.66, Penguin

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• If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

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  Men, Mind, Forests

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.57, Penguin

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• One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.

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  Motivational, Passion, Self

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• 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.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, School

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

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• If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.

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  Morning, Bed, Able

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• We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

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  Quality, Here And Now, Evolve

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.51, John Wiley & Sons

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• Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

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  Inspirational, Education, Believe

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