Teacher

Kenneth Robinson



Ken Robinson, Kt, PhD, (1950–2020) was a British educational advisor and author. He called for a total revolution on the current education system, and his TED Talk on schools’ killing of creativity is the most viewed TED Talk of all time. In 2003 he was knighted in recognition of his life’s work.

Kenneth Robinson
FindCenter Video Image

Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

The New York Times bestselling author of The Element gives readers an inspirational and practical guide to self-improvement, happiness, creativity, and personal transformation. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking.

book
Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
2024
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
20:04

Do Schools Kill Creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures, rather than undermines, creativity.

video
Kenneth Robinson
2007
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
19:12

How to Escape Education’s Death Valley | Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish—and how current education culture works against them.

video
Kenneth Robinson
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageIf you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

quote
Kenneth Robinson
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
54:51

Sir Ken Robinson: Finding Your Element

In Finding Your Element, author and educator, Sir Ken Robinson, offers viewers a guide to finding and being in their element. He provides basic principles and tools to help guide them to do the work they enjoy with a sense of contentment and purpose.

video
Kenneth Robinson
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative

Out of Our Minds explores creativity: its value in business, its ubiquity in children, its perceived absence in many adults, and the phenomenon through which it disappears―and offers a groundbreaking approach for getting it back.

book
Ken Robinson
2024
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

An Expert’s View: Sir Ken Robinson

Our new Learning sections will feature a question-and-answer segment with an education expert. For our first installment, we’ve chosen Sir Ken Robinson, a best-selling author and longtime advocate of transforming education.

article
Kenneth Robinson
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

FindCenter Quotes ImageCreativity is as important as literacy.

quote
Kenneth Robinson
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
10:58

Life Is Your Talents Discovered - Sir Ken Robinson - TEDxLiverpool

In this terrific and witty closing of TEDxLiverpool, Sir Ken Robinson argues that talent is often buried and that we need to search for it. In fact, the foundation of wisdom may be the willingness to go and look for it.

video
Kenneth Robinson
2014
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

How Much Homework Is Enough? Depends Who You Ask

In the stereotypical classroom, the teacher spends time in class presenting material to the students. Their homework consists of assignments based on that material.

article
Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Loader Image

EXPLORE RELATED TOPICS

Photo Credit: Frazer Harrison / Staff / Getty Images Entertainment / Getty Images