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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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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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Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.
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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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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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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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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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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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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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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
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Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.
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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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What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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