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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.

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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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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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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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
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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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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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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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The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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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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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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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If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
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