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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

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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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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.
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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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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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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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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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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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 arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak when you’re present in the current moment when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing when you are fully alive.
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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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Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
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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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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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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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