Ken Robinson

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

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.

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.

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.

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passion often matters more_ If you love doing something, you__l be constantly drawn to get better at it.

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.

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

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.

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

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

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. Human resources are like natural resources; they__e often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they__e not just lying around on the surface.

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.