Quotes from Sir Ken Robinson

Inspire creativity in students

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

It's not enough to be good at something to be in your element… We're being brought up with this idea that life is linear. This is an idea that's perpetuated when you come to write your CV — that you set out your life in a series of dates and achievements, in a linear way, as if your whole existence has progressed in an ordered, structured way, to bring you to this current interview.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.

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

La primera limitación está en nuestra comprensión del alcance de nuestras posibilidades.

si no estás preparado para equivocarte, nunca se te ocurrirá nada original.

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.

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

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

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.

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