Quotes from Ken Robinson

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.

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

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

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

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

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

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.

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

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

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

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