Ken Robinson Quotes about Children

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The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

Ken Robinson

Children, Passion, Keys

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

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

Ken Robinson

Children, Light, Curiosity

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

Ken Robinson

Dream, Children, Feet

If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

Ken Robinson

Children, Kids, Childhood

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.

Ken Robinson

Children, Community, Needs

"How schools stifle creativity" by Ken Robinson, www.cnn.com.

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.

Ken Robinson

Children, Believe, Imagination

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

Ken Robinson

Children, Growing Up, Imagination

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

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

Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

Ken Robinson

Children, Careers, Balance