Ken Robinson quotes

Ken Robinson was an English educator, author, and speaker renowned for his advocacy of creativity in education. His influential talks and writings challenged traditional approaches to teaching and learning worldwide. He inspired educators to foster innovation, curiosity, and individual talents in students. Here are 37 of his quotes:

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. (Ken Robinson)
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance. View quote
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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. View quote
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It is my contention that Creativity is as important today in Education as Literacy and we should treat it with the same status. View quote
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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it. View quote
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Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests. (Ken Robinson)
What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever. View quote
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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. View quote
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Creativity is as important as literacy. View quote
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For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail - it's just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed. View quote
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Curiosity is the engine of achievement. View quote
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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. View quote
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To be creative you actually have to do something. View quote
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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. View quote
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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated. View quote
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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. (Ken Robinson)
Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them. View quote
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Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson - Image
Photo: Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: English Educator
Born: March 4, 1950
Died: August 21, 2020
Quotes count: 37
Wikipedia: Ken Robinson

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