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

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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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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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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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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
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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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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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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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Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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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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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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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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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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