Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson
educational thinking ideas
Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.
heart creative progress
Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
creativity important literacy
Creativity is as important as literacy
It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.
school thinking people
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.
creative ifs
If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
imagination feelings intuition
We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
motivational unique past
Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.
art humanity hierarchy
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
creativity ideas way
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things
mind important elements
If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.
art math humanity
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
mother cutting technology
People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.
children growing-up imagination
Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.