The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.
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 RobinsonI believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
Ken RobinsonCreativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
Ken Robinson