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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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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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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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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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 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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The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak when you’re present in the current moment when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing when you are fully alive.
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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.
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