Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson
believe creativity learning
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
believe capacity hope-for-the-future
I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.
educational believe academic
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
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.
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.
anyone coordinate exact gotten grid reported
Had anyone reported this -- had we reported it, or had it gotten out -- it would have enabled them to know that they had the exact grid coordinate they needed.
anybody conditions flowers gardener good grows job learn leaves optimal paint provide stick
Nobodoy can make anybody else learn anything. You can't make them.Any more than if you are a gardener you make flowers grow. You don't make the flowers grow. You don't stick the petals on the leaves and paint it. The flower grows itself. Your job if you are any good at it, is to provide the optimal conditions for growth.
constantly instead run vulnerable whittle
That is when they become most vulnerable -- when they are on the run -- because they can't plan, they can't coordinate, they can't rehearse, and if you constantly keep them on the run, you can whittle them down instead of them whittling you down.
children careers balance
Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.
past done next
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
economic fathom inside lead life passions recreate sort talents
You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
including lies nurture wealth work
There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.
original process
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.