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Ken Robinson is a British author and educator renowned for his research on educational innovation and creativity. His works, such as 'The Element' and 'Out of Our Minds', have had a profound impact worldwide, advocating for educational systems to focus more on nurturing creativity in students.

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“You can think of creativity as applied imagination.”

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Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.”

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Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.”

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Book:Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

Source: Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

“Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.”

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“We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.”

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Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.”

Humans Imagination Consciousness Primaries Human Consciousness

Book:Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

“Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.”

Imagination Creativity

Book:Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

“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.”

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“All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.”

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Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.”

Humans Culture Imagination Results Creativity Extraordinary

Author:Ken Robinson

“Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.”

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Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.”

Children Grows Loses Imagination Growing Up

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.”

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Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Imagination is the source of all human achievement.”

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Author:Ken Robinson

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Born: March 4, 1950
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Quotes: 130

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