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Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

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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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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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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
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If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.
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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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