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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
Kenneth Robinson
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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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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If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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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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To be creative you actually have to do something.
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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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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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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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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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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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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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The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak when you’re present in the current moment when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing when you are fully alive.
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