265 Quotes by Ken Robinson

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.

If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.

If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.