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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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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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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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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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Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence
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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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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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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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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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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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Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.
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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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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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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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