Ken Robinson quotes - page 2

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital. (Ken Robinson)

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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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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I saw a well-meaning policy statement that said ‘College begins in Kindergarten'. No it doesn't, Kindergarten begins in Kindergarten. A friend of mine once said ‘A Three-Year old is not half a Six-Year old.

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If you're doing something you love, an hour seems like 5 minutes. If you are doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit 5 minutes can seem like an hour. And the reason that so many people are opting out of Education is because it doesn't feed their spirit, it doesn't feed their energy or their passion.

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Whoever thought of the No Child Left Behind legislation and its title certainly understands irony because millions of our children are indeed being left behind. This standardized testing is making the job of teachers unnecessarily difficult, limiting the discretion of teachers to teach. School systems are imposing conformity instead of promoting creativity.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. (Ken Robinson)

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

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Ken Robinson

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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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