Ken Robinson Quotes

In a large country like the United States or India, families differ significantly on their own education values, and I don't believe it is necessary to put everyone through the same curricula and assessments.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

I read so slow. If I have a script, I'm going to read it five times slower than any other actor, but I'll be able to tell you everything in it. It kills me that there are standardized tests geared towards just one kind of child.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

Competition has not worked in education because it has never really been tried.