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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

Ken Robinson

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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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Educator
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City of Liverpool
Kenneth Robinson
Afraid
Creative
Wrong
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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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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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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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