Ken Robinson - Education Quotes

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We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education. And it's impoverishing our spirits and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

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.

Ken Robinson
If you're doing something you love, an hour seems like 5 minutes. If you are doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit 5 minutes can seem like an hour. And the reason that so many people are opting out of Education is because it doesn't feed their spirit, it doesn't feed their energy or their passion.

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We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

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

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