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The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that test tomorrow and it's something that you're not interested in, that's just the opposite of education. It's also harming teaching, because the teachers are evaluated by the results of the test.

Noam Chomsky

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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