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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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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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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.
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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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We think about the world in all ways we experience it we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
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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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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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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.
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
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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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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
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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
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