“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.”
"Every day our children spread their dreams beneath our feet. We should tread softly."
- Ken Robinson
Awareness
"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
Awareness
"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."
- Ken Robinson
Creativity
"My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status."
- Ken Robinson
Creativity
"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
- Ken Robinson
Creativity
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Education
"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."
- Kotomi Ichinose
Education