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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
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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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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
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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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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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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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