Ken Robinson Quotes About Inspiration

Quotes about: Inspiration

• 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 of.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

• It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivation, Inspiration

  "How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 17, 2012.

• 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 relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

  Ken Robinson

  Teacher, Art, Educational

  "Why We Need to Reform Education Now". "Why We Need to Reform Education Now" by Ken Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

• 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, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

• Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.

• My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Kids

  "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, School

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2015). “Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education”, p.9, Penguin

• 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 the arts.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

• We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

• I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

  "How Do Schools Kill Creativity?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 3, 2014.

• There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

• You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don’t do music. You’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Jobs, Motivation

  "How Do Schools Kill Creativity?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 3, 2014.

• 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 their head to meetings.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Looks

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