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Ken Robinson
English
Educator
Born:
Mar 4
,
1950
Creative
Creativity
People
Think
Work
You
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The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.
Ken Robinson
Creative
Culture
Leader
Everyone
Valued
Feel
Ideas
Role
Where
Create
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
Ken Robinson
Work
Culture
Creativity
Imagination
Extraordinary
Results
Putting
Most
Human
Produced
Your
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
Ken Robinson
Learning
Minds
Databases
Souls
Tests
Happens
Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.
Ken Robinson
Work
Love
Good
Achievement
People
Passion
Some People
Some
Driver
Develop
Put
Feel
Talents
Underestimate
Because
Doing
May
Fields
Them
Things
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.
Ken Robinson
Good
Creative
People
School
Brilliant
Think
Valued
Highly
Talented
Because
Were
Creative People
Many
Actually
Thing
You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
Ken Robinson
Best
You
Creativity
People
Way
Out
Someone
Give
Environment
Encourage
Curiosity
Get
Just
Them
Create
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Ken Robinson
Creativity
Random
Value
Having
Ideas
Process
Original
Original Ideas
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?
Ken Robinson
You
Opportunity
Matter
Would
Tried
Write
Never
Had
Picked
Talent
Talents
Know
Instrument
Partly
How
Sailing
Passions
Been
Discover
Up
Fiction
Whether
Teach
Your
Things
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 Robinson
Education
Needs
Community
Never
Alternative
Answer
Child
Each
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
Ken Robinson
You
Creative
Mind
Athlete
Stimulating
Train
Just
Your
Regularly
Thinker
Olympic
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
Ken Robinson
Future
You
Past
Determine
Doing
Done
In The Past
Next
Now
Need
Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.
Ken Robinson
You
Natural
Looking
Lying
Resources
Like
Around
Surface
Go
Often
Human
Just
Buried
Them
Natural Resources
Deep
Human Resources
School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.
Ken Robinson
School
Fluid
Possible
Systems
More
Idea
Disciplines
Makes
Subjects
Fertile
Curriculum
Dynamic
Which
Much
Separate
Should
Base
If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.
Ken Robinson
Finance
Leadership
You
Creative
Depend
Engineering
Think
Everywhere
Running
Hospital
Ideas
Advertising
Principles
Whether
Ingenuity
Companies
Company
Apply
You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.
Ken Robinson
Life
You
Yourself
Important
Too
Fathom
Possible
Inside
More
Uncertainty
Economic
Recreate
Lead
Talents
Look
Make
Sort
Passions
Times
Than
Want
Create
Really
Your
Deep
Deep Inside
Ever
Downturn
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
Ken Robinson
Risks
School
Think
Minds
Willingness
Take
Fertile
Children
Sparkling
Start
Imaginations
Careers
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Ken Robinson
Music
You
Creative
Science
Dance
Engineering
Painting
Philosophy
Math
Anything
Much
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