« All Education Quotes · Ken Robinson's Page
Education Quotes by Ken Robinson
- The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control,…
- Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if…
- Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee…
- To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about…
- Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
- The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
- It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We are educating people out of their creative capacities.
- Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
- 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.…
- The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
- Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will…
- "Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface…
- Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
More Education Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe