{"author":"Ken Robinson","author_id":"Ken+Robinson","total_quotes":33,"quotes":[{"text":"Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["education","inspiration","revolution"],"id":3362,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"},{"text":"The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["student","equal","humanities "],"id":4874,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"},{"text":"What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["past","doing","you "],"id":35912,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"},{"text":"We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["creativity","education","fast-food"],"id":58014,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"},{"text":"The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["education"],"id":81070,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"},{"text":"Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["education"],"id":84267,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"},{"text":"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["creativity","education","human-resources","meaning-of-life","talent"],"id":88412,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"},{"text":"We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["creativity","education"],"id":89934,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"},{"text":"The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["dream","life","passion","psychology","success"],"id":119254,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"},{"text":"The mistake that many policymakers make is to believe that in education the best way to face the future is by improving what they did in the past. There are three major processes in education: the curriculum, which is what the school system expects students to learn; pedagogy, the process by which the system helps students to do it; and assessment, the process of judging how well they are doing.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["education","school"],"id":135705,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}