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“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
— Ken RobinsonKen Robinson says schools kill creativity
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“Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.”
— Ken RobinsonKen Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
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“We are educating people out of their creative capacities.”
— Ken RobinsonKen Robinson says schools kill creativity
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“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”
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“Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they’re not just lying around on the surface.”
— Ken RobinsonKen Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
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“Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.”
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“All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.”
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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.”
— Ken RobinsonKen Robinson says schools kill creativity
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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 don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?”
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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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“It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.”
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“You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.”
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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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“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.”
— Ken RobinsonKen Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
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“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”
— Ken RobinsonKen Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
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“There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.”
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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.”
— Ken RobinsonKen Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
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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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“Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.”
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