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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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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
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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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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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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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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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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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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