Ken Robinson Quotes

Everything is educational.

By playing, you learn.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

I do think observing is important in learning.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

Always educate yourself.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

I love learning new techniques.