When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger… — 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
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
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind. — 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
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
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
You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the… — 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
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth. — 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
“Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving. — Ken Robinson 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 and get… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
