Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson

"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."
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"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."
Ken Robinson
"We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish."
Ken Robinson
"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."
Ken Robinson
"Creativity is as important as literacy"
Ken Robinson
"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
Ken Robinson The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
"The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions."
Ken Robinson The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
"Curiosity is the engine of achievement."
Ken Robinson
"What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future."
Ken Robinson
"The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education."
Ken Robinson
"Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not."
Ken Robinson
"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."
Ken Robinson
"If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital."
Ken Robinson
"Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests."
Ken Robinson
"We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now."
Ken Robinson
"You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance."
Ken Robinson
"Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them."
Ken Robinson
"Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture."
Ken Robinson
"Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated."
Ken Robinson
"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. 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."
Ken Robinson
"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."
Ken Robinson
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