Quote

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.

Ken Robinson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
Conferencier
Education Expert
Educator
Speaker
Writer
City of Liverpool
Kenneth Robinson
Language
Mathematics
Art
Motivation
Earth
Bottom
Every
Subjects
Inspiration
Humanities
System
Hierarchy
Humanity
Languages
Education
Arts

More quotes by Ken Robinson

Image
The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
Ken Robinson
Image
Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
Ken Robinson
Image
Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
Ken Robinson
Image
Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
Ken Robinson
Image
If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
Ken Robinson
Image
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.
Ken Robinson
Image
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
Ken Robinson
Image
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
Ken Robinson
Image
Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
Ken Robinson
Image
My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
Ken Robinson
Image
Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us
Ken Robinson