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
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
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated. — Ken Robinson Communication Copy Share Image
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… — Ken Robinson Being yourself Copy Share Image
The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Experiments document that while negative emotions narrow attention . . . positive emotions, especially joy, make thought patterns far more flexible, creative, integrative and efficient.” — Ken Robinson Emotions 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
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
You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what… — Ken Robinson Attitude Copy Share Image
If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership… — Ken Robinson Advertising Copy Share Image
You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the… — Ken Robinson Advice Copy Share Image
“Although mindfulness does not remove the ups and downs of life, it changes how experiences like losing a job, getting a divorce,… — Ken Robinson Death and dying Copy Share Image
If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there… — Ken Robinson Ability Copy Share Image
“Perhaps best known is the case of Koko, the gorilla to whom the Gorilla Foundation taught American Sign Language. Koko learned more… — Ken Robinson Animal 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 Creativity 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 Creative 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 Creativity 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
Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed… — Ken Robinson Creativity 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 Aspirations Copy Share Image
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… — Ken Robinson Athlete Copy Share Image
Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering. — Ken Robinson Creativity 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 Art Copy Share Image
Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or… — Ken Robinson Brilliant 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 Children 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 Achievement Copy Share Image
“young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up” — Ken Robinson Child Copy Share Image
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit,… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“An organization with a staff that’s fully engaged is far more likely to succeed than one with a large portion of its… — Ken Robinson Workforce 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
Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances… — 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
Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination.… — Ken Robinson Creativity 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 Creativity Copy Share Image
You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
