Ken Robinson Quotes

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe ...

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale u...

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that...

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central c...

Many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if th...

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions...

Creativity is as important as literacy

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each...

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

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for th...

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel th...

Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doin...

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, whic...

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in ...

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the cond...

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.

Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passio...

Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: y...

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion ...

Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't att...

The mistake that many policymakers make is to believe that in education the best way to face the fut...

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spiritua...

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Death Valley wasn't dead at all. It was asleep. It was simply waiting for the conditions of growth. ...

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to ...

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and ou...

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I ...

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the ...