Quotes from Ken Robinson

La salud proporciona una libertad que muy pocos valoran hasta que la pierden

She just needed to be who she really was.

Employers say they want people who can think creatively, who can innovate, who can communicate well, work in teams and are adaptable and self-confident.

that if we keep our focus too tight, we miss the rest of the world swirling around us.

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

Training is a type of education that's focused on learning specific skills. I remember earnest debates as a student about the difficulty of distinguishing between education and training. The difference was clear enough when we talked about sex education. Most parents would be happy to know their teenagers had sex education at school; they'd probably be less happy if they'd had sex training.

because imagination is vitally important to our lives. Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

La pasión tiene que ver con todo aquello que alimenta la energía espiritual, en lugar de consumirla.

Is life essentially accidental and meaningless, or is it as profound and mysterious as Shakespeare's great tragic hero believed it to be?

All of this took place in the 1930´s.I think now they'd say she had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and they'd put her on Ritalin or something similar. But the ADHD epidemic hadn't been invented at the time. It wasn't an available condition.People didn't know they could have that and had to get by without it.

Haz zig cuando todo el mundo haga zag».

The conventional academic curriculum is focused almost entirely on the world around us and pays little attention to the inner world. We see the results of that every day in boredom, disengagement, stress, bullying, anxiety, depression, and dropping out. These are human issues and they call for human responses.

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

Kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong. If they aren't sure what to do in a particular situation, they'll just have a go at it and see how things turn out. This is not to suggest being wrong is the same thing as being creative. Sometimes being wrong is just being wrong. What is true is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

El futuro de la educación no está en estandarizar sino en personalizar; no en promover el pensamiento grupal y la «despersonalización», sino en cultivar la verdadera profundidad y el dinamismo de las habilidades humanas de todo tipo. En el futuro, la educación tiene que ser Elemental.

Elementary schools get it right in the first place—they're multidisciplinary and use fuzzy logic, and you're making and doing things. So are doctoral studies. You enter as a question mark and leave as a question mark.

Many people don't find their Element because they don't have the encouragement or the confidence to step outside their established circle of relationships

Dada la facilidad con la que nos distraemos, unos simples minutos cada día pueden ser un poderoso medio de reconectar con nosotros mismos, fortaleciendo la conciencia de quiénes somos bajo la superficie. Como la mayoría de las cosas que merece la pena hacer, no es fácil, pero siempre nos espera una recompensa.

El Elemento tiene dos características principales, y hay dos condiciones para estar en él. Las características son: capacidad y vocación. Las condiciones son: actitud y oportunidad. La secuencia es más o menos así: lo entiendo; me encanta; lo quiero; ¿dónde está?

Experiments document that while negative emotions narrow attention . . . positive emotions, especially joy, make thought patterns far more flexible, creative, integrative and efficient.

You dance as you walk through life. If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you don't lift up from this Earth.

Declining birth rates mean that employers are going to have to become more creative if they want to access the knowledge workers they need. And that means abandoning the lazy prejudice of age discrimination.

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

All kinds of experiences can make you feel good for a time: your favorite food, chocolate, partying, a great book, music that you love, watching your favorite baseball team win a game or having an intimate evening with your lover. You can make your own list. But when the hormones subside and the morning breaks, you may still feel as unfulfilled deep down as you did before the party started. You may be happy for a time, but sustained happiness depends on having a deeper sense of fulfillment.