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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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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
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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.
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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.
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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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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.
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If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
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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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There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
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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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Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
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Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
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There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.
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