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Quote by Ken Robinson

“What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.”

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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. more

“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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“There are three (3) principles on which human life ﬂourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.”

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“Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.”

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