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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
Everyday
Dreams
Feet
Dream
Tread
Children
Softly
Beneath
Spread
Everywhere

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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
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I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
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Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.
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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 primary gift of human consciousness.
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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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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
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Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence
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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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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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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things
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