Ken Robinson Quotes

Sir Kenneth Robinson is a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of the Arts in Schools Project and Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick , and is now Professor Emeritus at the same institution. In 2003 he was knighted for services to the arts.Originally from a working class Liverpool family, Robinson now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children. Wikipedia

✵ 4. March 1950

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Famous Ken Robinson Quotes

“What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“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.”

“Creativity is as important as literacy”

“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.”

“The key to raising achievement is to recognize that teaching and learning is a relationship.”

Source: Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up

“It is my contention that Creativity is as important today in Education as Literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”

TED Conference http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html (2006)

Ken Robinson Quotes about education

“We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education. And it’s impoverishing our spirits and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.”

TED Conference 2010 TED Conference http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html (2010)

“Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make -- and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.”

“If you’re doing something you love, an hour seems like 5 minutes. If you are doing something that doesn’t resonate with your spirit 5 minutes can seem like an hour. And the reason that so many people are opting out of Education is because it doesn't feed their spirit, it doesn't feed their energy or their passion.”

TED Conference http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html (2010)

Ken Robinson Quotes

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“For most of us the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”

“The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a single conception of ability. At the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence.”

TED Conference http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

“young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations… Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“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.”

“We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“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.”

“Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play. This turns possible underachievers into happy warriors.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“To be creative you actually have to do something.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Our ideas can enslave or liberate us.”

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

“I saw a well-meaning policy statement that said ‘College begins in Kindergarten'. No it doesn’t, Kindergarten begins in Kindergarten. A friend of mine once said ‘A Three-Year old is not half a Six-Year old.”

TED Conference http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html (2010)

“Whoever thought of the No Child Left Behind legislation and its title certainly understands irony because millions of our children our indeed being left behind. This standardized testing is making the job of teachers unnecessarily difficult, limiting the discretion of teachers to teach. School systems are imposing conformity instead of promoting creativity.”

Wit and humor combine in presenting serious message http://www.ourmidland.com/story_prep/article_8640fc8b-aed4-53a0-afa2-2076785c4fde.html (6 June 2011) <br class="br">Matrix:Midland Festival

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