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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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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things
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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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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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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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We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
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Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
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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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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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If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.
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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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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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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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