Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson
fire meet victims
Just like we do for fire victims every day of the year, we want to meet those needs.
multiple-choice choices soul
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
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.
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.
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.
creative ifs
If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
law-of-attraction imagination achievement
Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
being-yourself elements discovering
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.
imagination earth humans
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
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.
creative be-creative
To be creative you actually have to do something.
imagination consciousness humans
Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
discover matter partly passions picked talents tried whether
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?
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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.