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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

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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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 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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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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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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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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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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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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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.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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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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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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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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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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The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
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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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