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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

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 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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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
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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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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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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 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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Human resources are like natural resources they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.
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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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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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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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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
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The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
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