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The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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City of Liverpool
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Education doesn't need to be reformed- it needs to be transformed.
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What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
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