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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
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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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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things
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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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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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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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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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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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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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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 primary gift of human consciousness.
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One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
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