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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
Kenneth Robinson
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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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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us
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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.
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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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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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