Ken Robinson Quotes - Page 3

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

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 You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

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

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.

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.

The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.

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

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.

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.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

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.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

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?

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