265 Quotes by Ken Robinson

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.

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.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.