Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson
children light curiosity
If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.
mind important elements
If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.
art math humanity
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
mother cutting technology
People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.
children growing-up imagination
Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
children kids childhood
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
passion loving-what-you-do self
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.
body energy spirit
We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.
people world enough
Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.
country teacher school
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.
learning creativity important
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
motivational passion self
One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.
school mind sometimes
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
children believe imagination
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.