Ken Robinson

"Every day our children spread their dreams beneath our feet. We should tread softly."

- Ken Robinson

"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

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

"My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status."

- Ken Robinson

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

- Ken Robinson

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

- Ken Robinson

"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

"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. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves."

- Ken Robinson

"If you’re 50, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you’re likely younger — in very real, physical terms — than your neighbor who is 44, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout."

- Ken Robinson

"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