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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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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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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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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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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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Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.
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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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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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We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
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