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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.
Ken Robinson
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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.
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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
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Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.
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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.
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Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems
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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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