Top 180 Ken Robinson Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.”

— Ken Robinson

152. “What we think of ourselves and of the world makes us who we are and what we can be.”

— Ken Robinson

153. “I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

— Ken Robinson

154. “Perhaps the most important attitude for cultivating good fortune is a strong sense of perseverance. Many of the people in this book faced considerable constraints in finding the Element and managed to do it through sheer, dogged determination. None more so than Brad Zdanivsky.”

— Ken Robinson

155. “My life, like yours, is a constant process of improvisation between my interests and personality on the one hand and circumstances and opportunities on the other.”

— Ken Robinson

156. “The reason that neither he nor I could predict my life, any more than you can predict yours, is that life is not linear; it is organic.”

— Ken Robinson

157. “But it also taught me that it is easier to overcome people’s judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment, the fear we internalize.”

— Ken Robinson

158. “The second role of a mentor is encouragement. Mentors lead us to believe that we can achieve something that seemed improbable or impossible to us before we met them. They don’t allow us to succumb to self-doubt for too long, or the notion that our dreams are too large for us. They stand by to remind us of the skills we already possess and what we can achieve if we continue to work hard.”

— Ken Robinson

159. “Too many feel that what they’re good at isn’t valued by schools. Too many think they’re not good at anything.”

— Ken Robinson

160. “The revolution I’m advocating is based on different principles from those of the standards movement. It is based on a belief in the value of the individual, the right to self-determination, our potential to evolve and live a fulfilled life, and the importance of civic responsibility and respect for others.”

— Ken Robinson

161. “As soon as we have the power to release our minds from the immediate here and now, in a sense we are free. We are free to revisit the past, free to reframe the present, and free to anticipate a whole range of possible futures. Imagination is the foundation of everything that is uniquely and distinctively human. It is the basis of language, the arts, the sciences, systems of philosophy, and the all the vast intricacies of human culture.”

— Ken Robinson

162. “Sometimes, of course, your loved ones genuinely think you would be wasting your time and talents doing something of which they disapprove.”

— Ken Robinson

163. “Most people didn’t pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn’t imagine doing anything else with their lives.”

— Ken Robinson

164. “As Joseph Campbell says, if you move in the direction of your passions, opportunities tend to appear that you couldn’t have imagined and that weren’t otherwise there.”

— Ken Robinson

165. “Our ideas can enslave or liberate us.”

— Ken Robinson

166. “The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.”

— Ken Robinson

167. “Whatever the reason for it, dropping out is a symptom of a deeper problem in the system as a whole, not the problem itself. If you were running a business and every year you lost more than a third of your customers, you might start to wonder if the real problem was them or your business.”

— Ken Robinson

168. “Creative teams are dynamic.”

— Ken Robinson

169. “Wiseman has identified four principles that characterize lucky people. Lucky people tend to maximize chance opportunities.”

— Ken Robinson

170. “You can think of creativity as a conversation between what we’re trying to figure out and the media we are using.”

— Ken Robinson

171. “Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don’t attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don’t.”

— Ken Robinson

172. “They have discovered their Element – the place where the things you love to do and the things that you are good at come together. The.”

— Ken Robinson

173. “Cultural identities are always evolving, but education is one of the ways in which communities try to control the rate of change. This is why there’s always such heat generated around the content of education.”

— Ken Robinson

174. “As humanity becomes more numerous and interwoven, living respectfully with diversity is not just an ethical choice, it is a practical imperative. There.”

— Ken Robinson

175. “Groupthink can diminish the group as a whole.”

— Ken Robinson

176. “If you design a system to do something specific, don’t be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don’t be surprised it that’s what it does.”

— Ken Robinson

177. “The key to raising achievement is to recognize that teaching and learning is a relationship.”

— Ken Robinson

178. “The power of groups is that they validate the common interests of their members. The danger of groupthink is that it dulls their individual judgment. The group thinks in unison and behaves en masse.”

— Ken Robinson

179. “To be globally competitive, developed countries must offer something qualitatively different, that is, something that cannot be obtained at a lower cost in developing countries. And that something is certainly not great test scores in a few subjects or the so-called basic skills.”4.”

— Ken Robinson

180. “Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman and polymath, knew that a balanced, liberal education for all was essential for the proper flourishing of the American dream.”

— Ken Robinson

181. “This is true of your own life. If you open yourself to new experiences, the odds improve exponentially of one of those experiences changing your world in a profoundly positive.”

— Ken Robinson

182. “We don’t know who we can be until we know what we can do.”

— Ken Robinson

183. “Many of the jobs that current systems of education were designed for are fast disappearing.”

— Ken Robinson

184. “We have found that many of our students who were not successful before coming to Boston Arts Academy find their way to engaging with school through the arts, because school isn’t just another thing that they hate and are bad at.”

— Ken Robinson

185. “One of the most basic reasons for thinking that it’s too late to be who you are truly capable of being is the belief that life is linear.”

— Ken Robinson

186. “The changes that are needed in schools will take root more readily if local and national policies actually support them.”

— Ken Robinson