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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

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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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City of Liverpool
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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.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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.
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Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
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Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
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What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
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Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence
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The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
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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.
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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.
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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
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If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.
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If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.
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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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