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Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

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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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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions they are too segregated.
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Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.
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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
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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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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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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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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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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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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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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
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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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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
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