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Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson. Sandra Müürisepp Tallinn 2012. Early life and education. born 4 March 1950 o riginally from a working-class Liverpool family contracted polio at age four.

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Sir Ken Robinson

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  1. Sir Ken Robinson Sandra Müürisepp Tallinn 2012

  2. Early life and education • born 4 March 1950 • originally from a working-class Liverpool family • contracted polio at age four. • He studied English and drama (B.Ed.) at University of Leeds (1968–1972) and completed a PhD in 1981 at the University of London, researching drama and theatre in education.

  3. Who? • internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation • an author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education, and arts bodies • works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations

  4. Director of The Arts in Schools Project (1985–89), Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick (1989–2001) knighted in 2003 for services to education Robinson now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Marie-Therese and children James and Kate

  5. Quotes by Ken Robinson • “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” • “Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.” • “I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.”

  6. “Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.” “There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?” “Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.”

  7. “You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.” “Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.”

  8. Videos • http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U • http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

  9. Thank you for listening! 7.05.2012

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