Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson
teacher educational school
Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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.
interesting people done
Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.
creativity educated
We get educated out of creativity.
imagination earth humans
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
spirit hours minutes
If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.
communication organization littles
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
creative be-creative
To be creative you actually have to do something.
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.
heart kids home
If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".
university-professors water achievement
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
boat floats
Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat...
motivational alive feels
The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.
motivational creativity thinking
You can think of creativity as applied imagination.