Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress. — 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
Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.” — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“What Einstein seemed to understand is that intellectual growth and creativity come through embracing the dynamic nature of intelligence. Growth comes through… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department,… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically,… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“You create your own life by how you see the world and your place in it;” — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth.… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It… — 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
