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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
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City of Liverpool
Kenneth Robinson
Beneath
Spread
Everywhere
Everyday
Dreams
Feet
Dream
Tread
Children
Softly

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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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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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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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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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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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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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