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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
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Education Expert
Educator
Speaker
Writer
City of Liverpool
Kenneth Robinson
Beneath
Spread
Everywhere
Everyday
Dreams
Feet
Dream
Tread
Children
Softly

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One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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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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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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Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.
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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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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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If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
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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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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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