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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things
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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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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 you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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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Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
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Human resources are like natural resources they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.
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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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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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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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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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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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