If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up” — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think, — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” — Ken Robinson Copy Share
“As humanity becomes more numerous and interwoven, living respectfully with diversity is not just an ethical choice, it is a practical imperative. There” — Ken Robinson Copy Share
In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential… — Ken Robinson Copy Share
“For most of us the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low… — Ken Robinson Copy Share
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated. — Ken Robinson Copy Share
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom… — Ken Robinson Copy Share
“We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)” — Ken Robinson Copy Share
You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look… — Ken Robinson Copy Share
“I asked a professor of nanotechnology what they use to measure the unthinkable small distances of nanospace? He said it was the nanometre. This… — Ken Robinson Copy Share
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle… — Ken Robinson Copy Share
Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving. — Ken Robinson Copy Share
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… — Ken Robinson Copy Share
The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to… — Ken Robinson Copy Share
Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something. — Ken Robinson Copy Share
“Public schools were not only created in the interests of industrialism—they were created in the image of industrialism. In many ways, they reflect the… — Ken Robinson Copy Share
