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Ken Robinson Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by Ken Robinson on topics like education, people, system

  • If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

    — Ken Robinson on success
    3
  • All kids have tremendous talents - and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.

    — Ken Robinson on children
    3
  • We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

    — Ken Robinson on education
    3
  • Ken Robinson quote Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

    Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

    — Ken Robinson
    10
  • It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

    — Ken Robinson on education
    2
  • 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 on management
    1
  • Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

    — Ken Robinson on education
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  • 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 on discovery
    1
  • Typically [professors] live in their heads.

    ... They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It's a way of getting their head to meetings.

    — Ken Robinson on education
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  • Very 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.

    — Ken Robinson on discovery
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  • You don't think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody's English class, wasn't he? How annoying would that be?

    — Ken Robinson on art
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  • You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: 'Don't do music, you're not going to be a musician. Don't do art, you won't be an artist.' Benign advice - now, profoundly mistaken.

    — Ken Robinson on art
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  • There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

    — Ken Robinson on art
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  • About Ken Robinson

    Name Ken Robinson
    Quotes 14 quotations
    Birthday October 16
    About Sir Ken Robinson (born Liverpool 4 March 1950) is an internationally recognized leader in the development of innovation and human resources. He has worked with national governments in Europe and Asia, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, national and state education systems, non-profit corporations and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations.
    Top topics education, people, system, school, creative
  • 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.

    — Ken Robinson on art
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  • I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

    — Ken Robinson on education
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