All Ken Robinson Quotes
- Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we… Afford
- If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the… Childhood
- Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak… Any
- We are educating people out of their creative capacities. Capacities
- Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. Creativity
- Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed. Education
- The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel… All
- Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative. Afraid
- We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in… Abstract
- If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong? Forest
- Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies. Creative
- The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative.… Alternative
- You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in… Creative
- Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly. Beneath
- The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment… Combination
- The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. All
- Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up. Children
- Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth. Any
- Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke,… Creative
- Imagination is the source of all human achievement. Achievement
- Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done. Anything Interesting
- We get educated out of creativity. Creativity
- Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind. Best
- 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, five minutes feels… Feels Like
- Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated. Communication