265 Quotes by Ken Robinson

All around the world, there are many great schools, wonderful teachers, and inspiring leaders who are working creatively to provide students with the kinds of personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education they need.

When people are in their Element, they connect with something fundamental to their sense of identity, purpose, and well-being.

Whatever the reason for it, dropping out is a symptom of a deeper problem in the system as a whole, not the problem itself. If you were running a business and every year you lost more than a third of your customers, you might start to wonder if the real problem was them or your business.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.

Because when enough people move, that is a movement. And if the movement has enough energy, that is a revolution. And in education, that’s exactly what we need.

Perhaps the most important attitude for cultivating good fortune is a strong sense of perseverance. Many of the people in this book faced considerable constraints in finding the Element and managed to do it through sheer, dogged determination. None more so than Brad Zdanivsky.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn’t count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don’t enjoy it, who don’t get any real benefit from it.

I’ve said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don’t make plants grow.