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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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Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.
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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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Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
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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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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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Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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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 gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
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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 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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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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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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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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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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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.
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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 mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
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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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Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
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