Ken Robinson Quotes - Page 3

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• One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

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  Motivational, Attitude, Opportunity

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• Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.

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  Needs, Transformed

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.154, Penguin

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• Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

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  Mean, Creative, Ifs

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• Creativity is as important as literacy.

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  Creativity, Entrepreneur, Important

  "The Destruction of Democracy and Creativity in Our Schools: Mission Accomplished" by Arnold Dodge, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.

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• We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

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  Education, Motivation, Inspiration

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

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• The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.

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  Art, Ideas, Alive

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• 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.

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  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

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  Art, Math, Humanity

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.159, Penguin

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• One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

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  Creativity, Common Sense, Innovation

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.29, Penguin

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• One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.

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  Motivational, Passion, Self

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• 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.

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  Art, Jobs, Motivation

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

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• All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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 labor and most students have to endure.

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  Teacher, Principles, Three

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• You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

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  Motivational, Creativity, Thinking

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.50, Penguin

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• Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

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  Children, Growing Up, Imagination

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.9, Penguin

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• You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

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  Philosophy, Math, Engineering

  "TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered". blog.ted.com. August 12, 2009.

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• 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 rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.

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  Teacher, Educational, School

  "How to escape education's death valley". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April, 2013.

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• If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

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  Men, Mind, Forests

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.57, Penguin

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• A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

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  Years, Three, Six Year Olds

  "Bring on the learning revolution!". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

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  Failure, Creativity, Originality

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• 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.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, School

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

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• Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

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  Motivational, Writing, Learning

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.43, Penguin

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

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  Motivation, Inspiration

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

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• 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 term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.

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  Running, School, Son

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.21, Penguin

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