265 Quotes by Ken Robinson

Our ideas can enslave or liberate us.

Learning in and about the arts is essential to intellectual development.

Languages are the bearers of the cultural genes. As we learn a language, accents, and ways of speaking, we also learn ways of thinking, feeling, and relating.

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value – more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things.

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed – it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Education is the system that’s supposed to develop our natural abilities and enable us to make our way in the world. Instead, it is stifling the individual talents and abilities of too many students and killing their motivation to learn. There’s a huge irony in the middle of all of this.