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To be creative you actually have to do something.

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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
Kenneth Robinson
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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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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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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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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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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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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 source of all human achievement.
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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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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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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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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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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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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'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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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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