Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination. Ken Robinson More Quotes by Ken Robinson More Quotes From Ken Robinson We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all. Ken Robinson intuitionimaginationfeelings Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative. Ken Robinson creativeifsmean Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves. Ken Robinson creativitylearningmotivational Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence Ken Robinson diversitycommunityheart Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them. Ken Robinson achievementpassionpeople Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working. Ken Robinson educationalteacherschool 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. Ken Robinson importantmindculture If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it. Ken Robinson ablebedmorning Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life. Ken Robinson balancecareerschildren I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity. Ken Robinson hope-for-the-futurecapacitybelieve We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. Ken Robinson bodyenergyspirit You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance. Ken Robinson engineeringmathphilosophy Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. Ken Robinson creativityimaginationculture I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life. Ken Robinson university-professorsachievementwater Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed. Ken Robinson transformedneeds Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine. Ken Robinson benefitsimagineeasy Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat. Ken Robinson floatsboat The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others. Ken Robinson alivefeelsmotivational You can think of creativity as applied imagination. Ken Robinson creativitymotivationalthinking Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness. Ken Robinson consciousnesshumansimagination
