Ken Robinson Quotes - Page 2

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

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

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

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

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. There never was.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

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

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

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 success of schools.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

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

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

Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.

Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

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 depleting our physical bodies.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.