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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.

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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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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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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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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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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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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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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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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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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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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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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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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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of 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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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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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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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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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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