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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

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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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Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.
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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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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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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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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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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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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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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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School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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.
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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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