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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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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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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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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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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
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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
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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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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.
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There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.
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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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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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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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We think about the world in all ways we experience it we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in abstract term, we think in movement. Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
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