Ken Robinson Quotes & Sayings

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

“You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.”

“Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.”

“The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.”

“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.”

“The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.”

“School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.”

“Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.”

“Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.”

“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.”