Sir Ken Robinson
British writer and consultant Ken Robinson has advised European and Asian governments, large corporations, arts agencies and non-profit organizations on matters of human resources, education, innovation and creativity.
Fast Facts
- Born in Liverpool, England, in 1950
- Director of The Arts in Schools Project from 1985-1989
- Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003
- Spoke at the 2006 TED Conference
- Voted one of 2005's "Principal Voices" by CNN, Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine and Shell Oil Company1
- Spoke at the 2008 Accenture Global Convergence Forum
- Professor emeritus at the University of Warwick in England
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"The problem is that we have in most of our countries, a very narrow form of education, and it’s getting narrower. That’s my big concern, that education is meant among other things to develop people’s natural abilities, and I believe it really doesn’t do that. In many cases, it divorces people from their natural talents."2
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