Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us
Ken RobinsonYou donโt think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebodyโs English class, wasnโt he? How annoying would that be?
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 RobinsonFinding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems
Ken RobinsonPeople over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.
Ken Robinson