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Ken Robinson Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few Picture Quote #1

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer Picture Quote #1

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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing Picture Quote #1

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something Picture Quote #1

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it’s an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence Picture Quote #1

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever Picture Quote #1

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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Picture Quote #1

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp Picture Quote #1

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it’s produced the most extraordinary results in human culture Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence Picture Quote #1

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student’s education Picture Quote #1

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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 (Ken Robinson Quotes) 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 Quotes) Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education (Ken Robinson Quotes) 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 Quotes) Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few (Ken Robinson Quotes) Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer (Ken Robinson Quotes) Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing (Ken Robinson Quotes) Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something (Ken Robinson Quotes) Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems (Ken Robinson Quotes) 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 Quotes) We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it’s an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish (Ken Robinson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Ken Robinson Quotes) 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 (Ken Robinson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Ken Robinson Quotes) Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence (Ken Robinson Quotes) What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever (Ken Robinson Quotes) There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? (Ken Robinson Quotes) It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp (Ken Robinson Quotes) All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think (Ken Robinson Quotes) 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 (Ken Robinson Quotes) 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 (Ken Robinson Quotes) Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it’s produced the most extraordinary results in human culture (Ken Robinson Quotes) 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 (Ken Robinson Quotes) If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong? (Ken Robinson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence (Ken Robinson Quotes) The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student’s education (Ken Robinson Quotes)

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