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Education

ADHD. I'm not saying there's no such thing. I just don't believe it's an epidemic like this. If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget?

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Curiosity. If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance, very often.

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There are conditions under which people thrive, and conditions under which they don't.

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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents, and we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

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My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

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There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?

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Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

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Suddenly, degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true?

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Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip mine the earth for a particular commodity.

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