Ken Robinson Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

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.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

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.

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

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.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

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.

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.

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

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.

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

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

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.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

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.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

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.

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.

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

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.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.