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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
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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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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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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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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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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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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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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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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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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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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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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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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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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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