Ken Robinson Quotes

The fundamental purpose of schools is to grow adults.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

As parents, we all want the best for our children.

My dad emphasized athletics. My mom did as well, but my mom was really hard on the academic end of things and always stressed, 'Hey, you've got to have the grades, you've got to be prepared for life outside of sports.'

I'm a firm believer in teaching children to manage risk.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college.

The child will reveal himself through work.

An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.

We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

For every individual who gets killed, someone should build a school or teach a child. We really need to balance things with positivity.

If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do