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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
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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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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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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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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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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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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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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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