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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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“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”

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“I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.”

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“To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.”

“Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.”

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

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“My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.”

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“Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.”

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“You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?”

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“There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?”

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“It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.”

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“You 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? Don’t do music. You’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken.”

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“Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.”

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“Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.”

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“We are educating people out of their creative capacities.”

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Born: March 4, 1950
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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes EverythingRelated source material

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