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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

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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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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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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Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.
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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
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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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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
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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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The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak when you’re present in the current moment when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing when you are fully alive.
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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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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If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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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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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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