Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination. — Ken Robinson Creativity 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
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
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth. — Ken Robinson Collaboration Copy Share Image
What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp. — Ken Robinson Education Copy Share Image
Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world. — Ken Robinson Change Copy Share Image
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth — Ken Robinson 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“One of the essential problems for education is that most countries subject their schools to the fast-food model of quality assurance when… — Ken Robinson Confidence 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
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
“Dan Baker agrees: “The myth that money brings you happiness is one of the happiness traps,” he says. In a study of… — Ken Robinson Happiness 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
The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The… — Ken Robinson Achievement 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
“Public schools were not only created in the interests of industrialism—they were created in the image of industrialism. In many ways, they… — Ken Robinson Assembly line Copy Share Image
“The movement actually managed to succeed in lobbying for the passage of involuntary sterilization laws in thirty American states. This meant that… — Ken Robinson Death penalty Copy Share Image
“Depression is becoming an increasingly serious problem. In the United Kingdom, for example, prescriptions for antidepressant drugs have risen by more than… — Ken Robinson Clinical depression Copy Share Image
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and… — Ken Robinson Agriculture Copy Share Image
Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if… — Ken Robinson Adults Copy Share Image
“Outside of school, though, we were often defined by our disabilities. We were “handicapped”—a bit like a species. Often when people have… — Ken Robinson Disabilities Copy Share Image
“Richard Felder is co-developer of the Index of Learning Styles. He suggests that there are eight different learning styles. Active learners absorb… — Ken Robinson Visual Learner Copy Share Image
“find your Element you may have to challenge your own beliefs about yourself. Whatever age you are, you’ve almost certainly developed an… — Ken Robinson Doubts Copy Share Image
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind. — Ken Robinson Best things Copy Share Image
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random. — Ken Robinson Creativity Copy Share Image
