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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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All kids have tremendous talents - and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.
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We are educating people out of their creative capacities.
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Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
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It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.
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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.
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Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
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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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Typically [professors] live in their heads.
... They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It's a way of getting their head to meetings.
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Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.
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You don't think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody's English class, wasn't he? How annoying would that be?
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You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: 'Don't do music, you're not going to be a musician. Don't do art, you won't be an artist.' Benign advice - now, profoundly mistaken.
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There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
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Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.
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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.