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School Quotes by Ken Robinson
- 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…
- The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged…
- 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…
- To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves…
- When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously,…
- 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.
- You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you…
- All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think,
- Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
- There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the…
- School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible…
More School Quotes
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
- I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter… — Dan Aykroyd
- When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made… — Jensen Ackles