Book Titles

Out of Our Minds
Learning to be Creative

By Ken Robinson

Year Published: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1907312472
Categories: Creativity, Cultivation, Learning

32 Quotes Found

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Out of Our Minds:

…we don’t grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.

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Out of Our Minds:

…it is a mistake to think of the relationship between education and the economy as a straightforward process of supply and demand…

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Out of Our Minds:

While industrial systems may be standardized, mechanistic and linear, human life simply is not.

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Out of Our Minds:

The curricula of most school systems seem to divide into two broad groups: the useful disciplines and the useless ones.

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Out of Our Minds:

Ironically, the demand for new skills is coming at a time when colleges are least able to adapt and provide them because growing student numbers restrict the time available for staff to offer personalized teaching.

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Out of Our Minds:

We live in a time when the ability to adapt is critical.

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Out of Our Minds:

Few employees trust employers to provide useful opportunities for professional development.

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Out of Our Minds:

The proliferation of digital technologies has created what has been called the biggest generation gap since rock and roll.

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Out of Our Minds:

The creative capacities of generations of people have been sacrificed needlessly to an academic illusion.

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Out of Our Minds:

Despite all the attempts to promote parity between academic and vocational courses, the attitude persists that academic programs are of a much higher status.

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