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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.

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
Kenneth Robinson
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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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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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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You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
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We think about the world in all ways we experience it we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
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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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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
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Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us
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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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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
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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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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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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
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I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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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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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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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things
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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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