All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think, — Ken Robinson Careers 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
To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think… — Ken Robinson Be creative Copy Share Image
One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing… — Ken Robinson Advantage 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 Annoying Copy Share Image
We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most… — Ken Robinson Awareness Copy Share Image
Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness. — Ken Robinson Consciousness 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 Administrators 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 About 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 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 After hours Copy Share Image
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future. — Ken Robinson Can do Copy Share Image
Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination. — Ken Robinson Creativity 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
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong? — Ken Robinson Forests Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the two most important questions to ask yourself in the search for your passion are: what do you love, and what… — Ken Robinson Ask yourself 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 Benefits 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
If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to… — Ken Robinson Bears 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
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There… — Ken Robinson Alternatives Copy Share Image
If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good… — Ken Robinson Annoyed Copy Share Image
