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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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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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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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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Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems
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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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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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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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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.
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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
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