Author: Ken Robinson

Quotes

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

- Ken Robinson

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

- Ken Robinson

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

- Ken Robinson

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

- Ken Robinson

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

- 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.

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

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

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

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.

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.

- Ken Robinson

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

- Ken Robinson

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