Ken Robinson - Creativity Quotes

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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

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

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Whoever thought of the No Child Left Behind legislation and its title certainly understands irony because millions of our children our indeed being left behind. This standardized testing is making the job of teachers unnecessarily difficult, limiting the discretion of teachers to teach. School systems are imposing conformity instead of promoting creativity.

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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

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It is my contention that Creativity is as important today in Education as Literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

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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.

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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

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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.

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Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

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In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

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