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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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Ken Robinson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Died: 2020
Died: August 21
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What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
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One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
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