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1. "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

2. "Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability" ~ Ken Robinson

3. "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

4. "I asked a professor of nanotechnology what they use to measure the unthinkable small distances of nanospace? He said it was the nanometre. This didn't help me very much. A nanometre is a billionth of a metre. I understood the idea but couldn't visualise what it meant. I said, "What is it roughly?" He thought for a moment and said, "A nanometre is roughly the distance that a man's beard grows in one second". I had never thought about what beards do in a second but they must do something. It takes them all day to grow about a milllimetre. They don't leap out of your face at eight o'clock in the morning. Beards are slow, languid things and our language reflects this. We do not say "as quick as a beard" or "as fast as a bristle". We now have a way of grasping of how slow they are - about a nanometre a second." ~ Ken Robinson

5. "young children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations ... Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up" ~ Ken Robinson

6. "Inspire creativity in students" ~ Ken Robinson

7. "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." ~ Ken Robinson

8. "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." ~ Ken Robinson

9. "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." ~ Ken Robinson

10. "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." ~ Ken Robinson

11. "We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now." ~ Ken Robinson

12. "You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them." ~ Ken Robinson

13. "The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you're present in the current moment; when you're resonating with the excitement of this thing that you're experiencing; when you are fully alive." ~ Ken Robinson

14. "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." ~ Ken Robinson

15. "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." ~ Ken Robinson

16. "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." ~ Ken Robinson

17. "The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education." ~ Ken Robinson

18. "Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated." ~ Ken Robinson

19. "Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized." ~ Ken Robinson

20. "All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think." ~ Ken Robinson

21. "Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture." ~ Ken Robinson

22. "I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it." ~ Ken Robinson

23. "Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests." ~ Ken Robinson

24. "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." ~ Ken Robinson

25. "What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future." ~ Ken Robinson

26. "You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance." ~ Ken Robinson

27. "If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital." ~ Ken Robinson

28. "Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is." ~ Ken Robinson

29. "The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm." ~ Ken Robinson

30. "If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it." ~ Ken Robinson

31. "Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of." ~ Ken Robinson

32. "As the physicist John Wheeler said, "If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around." ~ Ken Robinson

33. "What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever." ~ Ken Robinson

34. "People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology—laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet—as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue." ~ Ken Robinson

35. "We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish." ~ Ken Robinson

36. "If he'd believed at any point along this journey that he had to follow a straight path in his career, he never would have found his true calling." ~ Ken Robinson

37. "Outside of school, though, we were often defined by our disabilities. We were "handicapped"—a bit like a species. Often when people have a disability, it's the disability that other people see rather than all the other abilities that coexist with their particular difficulty. It's why we talk about people being "disabled" rather than "having a disability." One of the reasons that people are branded by their disability is that the dominant conception of ability is so narrow. But the limitations of this conception affect everyone in education, not just those with "special needs." These days, anyone whose real strengths lie outside the restricted field of academic work can find being at school a dispiriting experience and emerge from it wondering if they have any significant aptitudes at all." ~ Ken Robinson

38. "Richard Felder is co-developer of the Index of Learning Styles. He suggests that there are eight different learning styles. Active learners absorb material best by applying it in some fashion or explaining it to others. Reflective learners prefer to consider the material before doing anything with it. Sensing learners like learning facts and tend to be good with details. Intuitive learners like to identify the relationships between things and are comfortable with abstract concepts. Visual learners remember best what they see, while verbal learners do better with written and spoken explanations. Sequential learners like to learn by following a process from one logical step to the next, while global learners tend to make cognitive leaps, continuously taking in information until they "get it." ~ Ken Robinson

39. "What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now." ~ Ken Robinson

40. "educación no necesita que la reformen: necesita que la transformen. La clave para esta transformación no es estandarizar la educación sino personalizarla: descubrir los talentos individuales de cada niño, colocar a los estudiantes en un entorno en el que quieran aprender y puedan descubrir de forma natural sus verdaderas pasiones. La clave está en adoptar los principios fundamentales del Elemento. Algunas de las innovaciones en educación más estimulantes y de mayor éxito en el mundo ilustran el verdadero poder de este enfoque." ~ Ken Robinson

41. "If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it." ~ Ken Robinson

42. "El niño está hecho de cien. El niño tiene cien lenguajes cien manos cien pensamientos cien modos de pensar de jugar, de hablar. Cien, siempre cien modos de escuchar de maravillarse de amar cien alegrías para cantar y entender cien modos de descubrir de inventar cien modos de soñar. El niño tiene cien lenguajes y cientos más pero le roban noventa y nueve. La escuela y la cultura separan la cabeza del cuerpo. Le dicen al niño: que piense sin manos que trabaje sin cabeza que escuche y no hable que entienda sin alegría que ame y se asombre solo en Pascua y Navidad. Le dicen al niño: que descubra un mundo que ya existe y de cien le quitan noventa y nueve. Le dicen al niño: que el trabajo y el juego la realidad y la fantasía la ciencia y la imaginación el cielo y la tierra la razón y los sueños son cosas que no están unidas. Le dicen, en resumen, que el cien no existe. Pero el niño exclama: ¡Qué va, el cien existe!" ~ Ken Robinson

43. "Los procesos educativos actuales no tienen en cuenta los estilos individuales de aprendizaje ni el talento. De ese modo, ofenden el principo de individualidad." ~ Ken Robinson

44. "El futuro de la educación no está en estandarizar sino en personalizar; no en promover el pensamiento grupal y la «despersonalización», sino en cultivar la verdadera profundidad y el dinamismo de las habilidades humanas de todo tipo. En el futuro, la educación tiene que ser Elemental." ~ Ken Robinson

45. "One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense." ~ Ken Robinson

46. "Creative teams are dynamic." ~ Ken Robinson

47. "We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies." ~ Ken Robinson

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