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Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

Ken Robinson

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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
Kenneth Robinson
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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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The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
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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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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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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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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence
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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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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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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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Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
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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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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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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
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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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You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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