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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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Educator
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City of Liverpool
Kenneth Robinson
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Imagination
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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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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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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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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