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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.

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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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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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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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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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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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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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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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