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To be creative you actually have to do something.

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
Kenneth Robinson
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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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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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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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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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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
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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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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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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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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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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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Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving 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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Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
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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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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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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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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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