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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.
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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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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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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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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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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Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
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There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.
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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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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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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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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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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.
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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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