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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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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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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.
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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
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Human resources are like natural resources they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
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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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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
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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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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
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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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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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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.
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