Ken Robinson Quotes

We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.

What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

Other than my marriage, the decision to get a Ph.D. was probably the best decision of my life.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.