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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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City of Liverpool
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.
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You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
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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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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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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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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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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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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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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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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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