"All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think," he says. "Most students never get to explore the full range of their abilities and interests ... Education is the system that's supposed to develop our natural abilities and enable us to make our way in the world. Instead, it is stifling the individual talents and abilities of too many students and killing their motivation to learn." ~Sir Ken Robinson
“As I see it, the aims of education are to enable students to understand the world around them and the talents within them so that they can become fulfilled individuals and active, compassionate citizens.” ~Sir Ken Robinson, "Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground U
"Creativity is applied imagination." ~Sir Ken Robinson
"Creativity is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status." ~Sir Ken Robinson
"Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. … At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and at the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on Earth. And in pretty much every system too, there's a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in school than drama and dance. There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not? I think this is rather important. I think math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they're allowed to, we all do. We all have bodies, don't we? Did I miss a meeting?" ~Sir Ken Robinson
“Everywhere I go, I find the same paradox. Most children thing they’re highly creative; most adults think they’re not. This is a bigger issue than it might seem.” ~Sir Ken Robinson
"I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity." ~Sir Ken Robinson
"I believe this passionately, that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it." ~Sir Ken Robinson
“I often tell politicians: If you want to stop the problems in education, stop causing them.” ~Sir Ken Robinson
"One size does not fit all. Some of the most brilliant, creative people I know did not do well at school. Many of them didn't really discover what they could do - and who they really were - until they leave school and recovered from their education." ~Sir Ken Robinson
"Our task is to educate [our students'] whole being so they can face the future. We may not see that future but they will, and our job is to help them make something of it." ~Sir Ken Johnson
“Public schools were not only created in the interests of industrialism—they were created in the image of industrialism. In many ways, they reflect the factory culture they were designed to support. This is especially true in high schools, where school systems base education on the principles of the assembly line and the efficient division of labour. Schools divide the curriculum into specialist segments: some teachers install math in the students, and others install history. They arrange the day into standard units of time, marked out by the ringing of bells, much like a factory announcing the beginning of the workday and the end of breaks. Students are educated in batches, according to age, as if the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture. They are given standardised tests at set points and compared with each other before being sent out onto the market. I realise this isn’t an exact analogy and that it ignores many of the subtleties of the system, but it is close enough.” ~Sir Ken Robinson, "The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything"
"Successful Schools don't focus on output; they focus on culture in the same way Sustainable Farmers focus on the soil. You get the culture right, and everything takes care of itself. That really means a culture of compassion, of collaboration, of empathy, and of the valuing of individuals - and the necessity of [having] our lives thriving through our joint participation." ~Sir Ken Robinson, 7th May 2020.
"The best evidence of human creativity is our trajectory through life." ~Sir Ken Robinson
"The conventional academic curriculum is almost 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." ~Sir Ken Robinson
"There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not? I think this is rather important. I think math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they're allowed to, we all do. We all have bodies, don't we? Did I miss a meeting?" ~Sir Ken Robinson
“Too many feel that what they’re good at isn’t valued by schools. Too many think they’re not good at anything.” ~Sir Ken Robinson, from "The Element - How finding your passion changes everything"
"We have to recognise education is a human system and there are conditions under which people thrive, and conditions under which they don't." ~Sir Ken Robinson
SOURCE: Dance with me in the heart (Celebrating Sir Ken Robinson (4th March 1950 - 21st August 2020); TED
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