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The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

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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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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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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
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Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
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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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