Ken Robinson Quotes

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

All kids have tremendous talents - and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

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.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.