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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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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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City of Liverpool
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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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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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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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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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We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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