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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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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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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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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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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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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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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
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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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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
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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 gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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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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