Ken Robinson Quotes about Motivation

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.