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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.

Ken Robinson

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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 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.
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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.
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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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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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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.
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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.
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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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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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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