265 Quotes by Ken Robinson

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

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.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

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

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

Classical education was based on the seven liberal arts or sciences: grammar, the formal structures of language; rhetoric, composition and presentation of argument; dialectic, formal logic; arithmetic; geometry; music; astronomy.14 For centuries, the classics dominated the very idea of being educated and attempts at reform were resisted.

You can think of creativity as a conversation between what we’re trying to figure out and the media we are using.