Sir Ken Robinson is an expert on creativity. He has worked with government and international cultural organisations on this very theme. How can we get the best from people? He argues that our education sytems prepare us to be “good workers” rather than creative thinkers. Sir Ken champions a radical shift in how we educate children in order to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple intelligences. Finding your talent and your passion are at the core of his approach.
Watch a short, inspirational video of Ken Robinson – Bring on the Learning Revolution
Some views from 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.” – Ken Robinson
“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed — it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”
— Ken Robinson (The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything)“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.”
— Ken Robinson (The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything)“It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future.They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realise our true creative potential—in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities—we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each other. We must learn to be creative.”—Ken Robinson
“Creativity is as important as literacy”
— Ken Robinson“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
— Ken Robinson (The Element: A New View of Human Capacity)
