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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.

Ken Robinson

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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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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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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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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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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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Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
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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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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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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
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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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Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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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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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.
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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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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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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
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Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.
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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 of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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