Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson
creativity creative challenges
Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
multiple-choice choices soul
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
children community alternatives
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.
teacher teaching creative
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.
believe teaching creativity
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.
teamwork growth stuff
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
creativity play imagination
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.
education lying natural
"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 You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves"
creativity common-sense innovation
One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
men mind forests
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
motivational attitude opportunity
One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
teacher culture principles
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.
teaching creativity tasks
Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.
development outcomes farmers
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.