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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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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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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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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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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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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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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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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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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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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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