Sir Ken Robinson
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Podcast Appearances
I said, what happened?
She said, she did.
I can't tell you how wonderful it was.
We walked in this room, and it was full of people like me.
People who couldn't sit still.
People who had to move to think.
Who had to move to think.
They did ballet, they did tap, they did jazz, they did modern, they did contemporary.
She was eventually auditioned for the Royal Ballet School.
She became a soloist.
She had a wonderful career at the Royal Ballet.
She eventually graduated from the Royal Ballet School, found her own company, the Gillian Dance Company, met Andrew Lloyd Webber.
She's been responsible for some of the most successful musical theatre productions in history.
She's given pleasure to millions, and she's a multi-millionaire.
Somebody else might have put her on medication and told her to calm down.
Now, I think...
What I think it comes to is this.
I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness of human capacity.
Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mined the Earth for a particular commodity.
and for the future, it won't serve us.