Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson
motivational alive feels
The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.
motivational creativity thinking
You can think of creativity as applied imagination.
commitment creative excellence
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.
being-yourself elements discovering
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.
morning able facts
If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.
heart diversity community
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
children everyday way
There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
art jobs school
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.
looks body way
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.
fitness workout jobs
If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.
creativity imagination culture
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
needs transformed
Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
educational effectiveness elements
Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems
mean creative ifs
Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.