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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
Conferencier
Education Expert
Educator
Speaker
Writer
City of Liverpool
Kenneth Robinson
Beneath
Spread
Everywhere
Everyday
Dreams
Feet
Dream
Tread
Children
Softly

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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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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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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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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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Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
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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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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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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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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
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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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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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