Ken Robinson Quotes - Page 4

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• 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?

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  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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• It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

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  Motivation, Inspiration

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

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• 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.

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  Running, School, Son

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

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• Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

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  Motivational, Writing, Learning

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.43, Penguin

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• Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

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  Educational, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

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  Fitness, Workout, Jobs

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• Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

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  Benefits, Imagine, Easy

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.192, John Wiley & Sons

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• People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.

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  Mother, Cutting, Technology

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• In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

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  Jobs, Creativity, Past

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.23, John Wiley & Sons

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• Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

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  Creativity, Imagination

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

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  Children, Careers, Balance

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

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  Children, School, Thinking

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

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• Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.

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  Motivational, Dream, Passion

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.127, Penguin

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• Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

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  Learning, Creativity, Ideas

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

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• Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

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  Creativity, Creative, Challenges

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.

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  Life, Motivational, Money

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.22, Penguin

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• Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

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  Creativity, Imagination, Culture

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

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• My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Kids

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

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• Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

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  Creativity, Events, Process

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

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• Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

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  Creativity, Creative, Doe

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• We get educated out of creativity.

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  Creativity, Educated

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• Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

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  Creativity, Interesting, Creative

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• Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Looks

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• We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

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  Mean, Mind, World

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

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• 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.

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  Education, Real, School

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

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