Ken Robinson Quotes

Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

If we get agriculture right in Africa, where most of the people now are working in that sector, not only would it help boost development but we will be secure in terms of food and nutrition and then be able to move on to other areas.

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves.

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.

I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

Homeless people's dogs are more knowledgeable than dogs in Beverly Hills. Why? Because they explore, they move forward, they go through the ups and downs in life. A dog in a wealthy environment, there is no downs except what he lives.

When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it's innate, you can't learn it, I just want to hit them in the head.

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

We've done a miserable job of preparing people for today's world, let alone tomorrow's.

People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.

People must get active; go outside; get moving. This is a crucial time. You know, massive wealth and capital haven't budged one bit, so far. We have to give it a huge push if we want to see something different in our society. We need to create mechanisms and forms of organization which reflect the needs and wants of society as a whole, not just a privileged-oligarchic class of individuals.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

You've got to bring the emotion, and you have to understand that you can't touch other people if you're not touched. You can't move other people if you're not moved. So if you're just giving some frickin talk you've memorized over and over again, you're going to have a flat affect. If you've just got a bunch of visuals on the screen that are leading your talk, hang up your shoes and get the hell out of there.

I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.

Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.