It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the… — 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
Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future,… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make -- and the… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around… — 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
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
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
“One of the essential problems for education is that most countries subject their schools to the fast-food model of quality assurance when… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends… — 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
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
“According to one study, almost half of the adults in the United States have little enthusiasm for life and are not actively… — 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
“The one that we’re involved with is that kids are natural learners. That’s the paradigm we know is true, and modern brain… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Public schools were not only created in the interests of industrialism—they were created in the image of industrialism. In many ways, they… — 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
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
School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines...… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“All students are unique individuals with their own hopes, talents, anxieties, fears, passions, and aspirations. Engaging them as individuals is the heart… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — 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
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself. — 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
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