All Ken Robinson Quotes
- We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching… Agriculture
- We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is… Bodies
- Curiosity is the engine of achievement. Achievement
- The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re… Address
- 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 be yourself in… Compulsion
- I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our… Adopt
- You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to… All
- If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been… Ability
- Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our… Ability
- What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever. Dies
- Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized. Actually Stigmatized
- All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly. All
- Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are… Art
- You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class,… Annoying
- There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Children
- It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp. Education
- You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you… Advice
- Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting… Body
- There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to… Contradicted
- Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic. All
- Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value Creativity
- All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think, All
- Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests. Choice
- We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of… All
- A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old. Half