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Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination. — Ken Robinson

In January 2004, the number of unemployed American college graduates actually exceeded the number of unemployed high school dropouts. — Ken Robinson

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now. — Ken Robinson

One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. — Ken Robinson

We're reducing the number of high-stakes tests from fifteen to five. — Ken Robinson

The impossible yesterday is routine today. Wait until tomorrow. — Ken Robinson

I believe profoundly that we don't grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it. — Ken Robinson

Curiosity is the engine of achievement. — Ken Robinson

All kids have tremendous talents - and we squander them pretty ruthlessly. — Ken Robinson

When people are in their Element, they connect with something fundamental to their sense of identity, purpose, and well-being. — Ken Robinson

Our ideas can enslave or liberate us. — Ken Robinson

Apparently, organizers kept Elvis Presley from joining his school's glee club. They said his voice would ruin their sound. — Ken Robinson

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done. — Ken Robinson

Imagination is the source of all human achievement. — Ken Robinson

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish. — Ken Robinson

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions. — Ken Robinson

We build our own cultures not only on the achievements of those that have come before but on their ruins. — Ken Robinson

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old. — Ken Robinson

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells — Ken Robinson

Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat ... — Ken Robinson

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few. — Ken Robinson

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. — Ken Robinson

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving. — Ken Robinson

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive. — Ken Robinson

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something. — Ken Robinson

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not? — Ken Robinson

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random. — Ken Robinson

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative. — Ken Robinson

Public education puts relentless pressure on its students to conform. — Ken Robinson

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability — Ken Robinson

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer. — Ken Robinson

The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others. — Ken Robinson

Creative teams are dynamic. — Ken Robinson

I've said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don't make plants grow. — Ken Robinson

You create your own life by how you see the world and your place in it; — Ken Robinson

Wiseman has identified four principles that characterize lucky people. Lucky people tend to maximize chance opportunities. — Ken Robinson

You can think of creativity as applied imagination. — Ken Robinson

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong? — 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. — Ken Robinson

What we think of ourselves and of the world makes us who we are and what we can be. — Ken Robinson

Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed. — Ken Robinson

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative. — Ken Robinson

Now, more than ever, human communities depend on a diversity of talents; not on a singular conception of ability. — Ken Robinson

But it also taught me that it is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment, the fear we internalize. — Ken Robinson

Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents. — Ken Robinson

To be creative you actually have to do something. — Ken Robinson

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence. — Ken Robinson

If he'd believed at any point along this journey that he had to follow a straight path in his career, he never would have found his true calling. — Ken Robinson

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

Young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up — Ken Robinson

The reason that neither he nor I could predict my life, any more than you can predict yours, is that life is not linear; it is organic. — Ken Robinson

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

The dominant Western worldview is not based on seeing synergies and connections but on making distinctions and seeing differences. — Ken Robinson

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine. — Ken Robinson

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress. — Ken Robinson

The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion. — Ken Robinson

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

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. — Ken Robinson

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9) — Ken Robinson

I don't think that anything I've done in my life would have been possible without my mother. — Ken Robinson

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

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event. — Ken Robinson

Creativity is as important as literacy — Ken Robinson

The changes that are needed in schools will take root more readily if local and national policies actually support them. — Ken Robinson

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up? — Ken Burns

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities. — Ken Robinson

In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system. — Ken Robinson

Educating children by age group assumes that the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture. — Ken Robinson

For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail - it's just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed. — Ken Robinson

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth. — Ken Robinson

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. — Ken Robinson

The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers. — Ken Robinson

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

Education is one of the main ways that communities pass on their values and traditions from one generation to the next. — Ken Robinson

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

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever. — Ken Robinson

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools. — Ken Robinson

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp. — Ken Robinson

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm. — Ken Robinson

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

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense. — Ken Robinson

Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself. — Ken Robinson

Learning in and about the arts is essential to intellectual development. — Ken Robinson

We get educated out of creativity. — Ken Robinson

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact. — Ken Robinson

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson

What people contribute to the world around them has everything to do with how they engage with the world within them. — Ken Robinson

Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. — Ken Robinson

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools. Too many think they're not good at anything. — Ken Robinson

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind. — Ken Robinson

A strong will to be yourself is an indomitable force. — Ken Robinson

Expert teachers fulfill four main roles: they engage, enable, expect, and empower. ENGAGE — Ken Robinson

The task of education is not to teach subjects: it is to teach students. — Ken Robinson

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness. — Ken Robinson

Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world. — Ken Robinson

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests. — Ken Robinson

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance. — Ken Robinson

Many schools are organized as they are because they always have been, not because they must be. — Ken Robinson

The first boy said, "I bring you gold." The second boy said, "I bring you myrrh." The third boy said, "Frank sent this. — Ken Robinson