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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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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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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
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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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Human resources are like natural resources they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.
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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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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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