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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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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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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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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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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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One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
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You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
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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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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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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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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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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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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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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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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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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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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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