Quotes from 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.

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

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

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

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

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.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

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

Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?

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

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

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface.

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

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

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.