Quotes from Ken Robinson

It can be just as helpful to focus on the immediate next steps. Beginning the journey, and being willing to explore various pathways, can be as productive as setting out with a final destination in mind.

Creativity is the strongest example of the dynamic nature of intelligence, and it can call on all areas of our minds and being.

los tres alcanzaron el éxito y la satisfacción personal tras descubrir aquello que, de forma natural, se les da bien y les entusiasma.

Los niños aprenden algo más. De vez en cuando los maestros tienen que explicarles que uno de los Compañeros de Libro no podrá volver a acudir, que esa persona ha muerto. Los niños asimilan así a una edad muy temprana que la vida tiene sus ritmos y sus ciclos, y que incluso las personas cercanas a ellos forman parte de ese ciclo.

Like a lot of common sense, they may seem obvious but they are wrong. The creative capacities of generations of people have been sacrificed needlessly to an academic illusion.

Creativity is a step beyond imagination because it requires that you actually do something rather than lie around thinking about it. It's a very practical process of trying to make something original. It may be a song, a theory, a dress, a short story, a boat, or a new sauce for your spaghetti. Regardless, some common features pertain.

Human lives are organic and cyclical. Different capacities express themselves in

interiores de otras personas, ver a través de sus ojos y sentir lo mismo que ellos. Podemos ser empáticos. Podemos anticipar el futuro e intentar hacerlo realidad. Estos poderes, la retrospección, la empatía y la premonición, se encuentran entre nuestros mejores recursos para dar forma una y otra vez a nuestras vidas.

stronger ways at different times in our lives. Because of this, we get multiple opportunities for new growth and development, and multiple opportunities to revitalize latent capacities.

People who work creatively usually have something in common: they love the media they work with.

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

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

Compare these accomplishments with the premature resignation of people you know in their thirties or forties, who behave as if their lives have settled into a dull routine and who see little opportunity to change and evolve.

Instead of standing on the shore and convincing ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture onto its waters—just to see.

PRINCIPLE #2: YOU CREATE YOUR OWN LIFE Whatever your history and circumstances, you should never feel locked in by what has happened to you up to now. It is often said that you cannot change the past but you can change the future. And so you can, because of your very nature as a human being.

Existe la fuente de la juventud: se trata de tu mente, de tus talentos, de la creatividad que lleves a tu vida y a la de aquellos a los que amas.

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

expert teachers fulfill four main roles: they engage, enable, expect, and

The word amateur derives from the Latin word amator, which means lover, devoted friend, or someone who is in avid pursuit of an objective. In the original sense, an amateur is someone who does something for the love of

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.

The impossible yesterday is routine today. Wait until tomorrow.

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

veces, equivocarse significa simplemente equivocarse. Pero si no estás preparado para equivocarte, nunca se te ocurrirá nada original.

Children starting school this year will be retiring in 2070. No one has any idea of what the world will look like in ten years' time, let alone in 2070. There are two major drivers of change—technology and demography.