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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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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.
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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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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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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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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
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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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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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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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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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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
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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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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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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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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
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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 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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Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
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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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