Quote

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

Ken Robinson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
Conferencier
Education Expert
Educator
Speaker
Writer
City of Liverpool
Kenneth Robinson
Private
Creativity
Creative
Doe
May
Something
Imaginings
World
Involves
Outcomes

More quotes by Ken Robinson

Image
Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
Ken Robinson
Image
What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak when you’re present in the current moment when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing when you are fully alive.
Ken Robinson
Image
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
Image
Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
Ken Robinson
Image
If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.
Ken Robinson
Image
We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
Ken Robinson
Image
Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
Ken Robinson
Image
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
Ken Robinson
Image
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
Ken Robinson
Image
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things
Ken Robinson