You 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 RobinsonCreativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.
Ken RobinsonI mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
Ken RobinsonYou were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Donโt do music. Youโre not going to be a musician. Donโt do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken.
Ken Robinson