“As soon as we have the power to release our minds from the immediate here and now, in a sense we are free. We are free to revisit the past, free to reframe the present, and free to anticipate a whole range of possible futures. Imagination is the foundation of everything that is uniquely and distinctively human. It is the basis of language, the arts, the sciences, systems of philosophy, and the all the vast intricacies of human culture.” Sir Ken Robinson

“You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.” Sir Ken Robinson

“The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment, when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing, when you are fully alive.” Sir Ken Robinson

“We really live in two worlds, don’t we? There’s a world that exists whether or not you exist, a world that came into being before you did. It was here before you got here. It will be here well long after you are gone. It’s the world of other people, events, other circumstances. Our education systems are pretty obsessed with that world.

But there’s another world that exists only because you exist. It’s the world of your own private consciousness, the world that came into being when you did, the world, as somebody once said, where there’s only one set of footprints, a world of your private passions, your motivations, your aspirations, your hopes, and your talents.

And I believe the future of the world around us, so far as we’re concerned, depends on understanding much more about the world within us.” Sir Ken Robinson

“Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability.” Sir Ken Robinson

“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.” Sir Ken Robinson