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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.
Ken Robinson
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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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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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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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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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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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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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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
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