It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential-in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities-we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.
Ken RobinsonIf 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.
Ken RobinsonImagination 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 RobinsonThe gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth
Ken RobinsonThe arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when youโre present in the current moment; when youโre resonating with the excitement of this thing that youโre experiencing; when you are fully alive.
Ken Robinson