265 Quotes by Ken Robinson

Ultimately, the two most important questions to ask yourself in the search for your passion are: what do you love, and what do you love about it?

In my experience, most people have a narrow view of intelligence, tending to think of it mainly in terms of academic ability. This is why so many people who are smart in other ways end up thinking that they’re not smart at all. There are myths surrounding creativity as well.

When you’re in your Element, your sense of time changes. If you’re doing something that you love, an hour can feel like five minutes; if you are doing something that you do not, five minutes can feel like an hour.

Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

Public education puts relentless pressure on its students to conform.

Often we need other people to help us recognize our real talents. Often we can help other people to discover theirs.

Education doesn’t need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.

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.

Creative teams are dynamic.