Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves. Ken Robinson More Quotes by Ken Robinson More Quotes From Ken Robinson Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative. Ken Robinson creative ifs mean 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 creativity learning motivational 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 diversity community heart 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 achievement passion people 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 educational teacher school 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 important mind culture 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 able bed morning 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 balance careers children 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-future capacity believe 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 body energy spirit 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 engineering math philosophy Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. Ken Robinson creativity imagination culture 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-professors achievement water Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed. Ken Robinson transformed needs 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 benefits imagine easy Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat. Ken Robinson floats boat The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others. Ken Robinson alive feels motivational You can think of creativity as applied imagination. Ken Robinson creativity motivational thinking Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness. Ken Robinson consciousness humans imagination Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. Ken Robinson business mistake running
