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is reforming
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public education for two reasons for it
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the first one is economic people trying to fit workout
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how do we
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educating
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our children to take their place in the economy is the twenty first century how
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do we do that
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in the recount anticipate what economy will look like at the end of next week
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as the recent turmoil
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how do we do that
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the second-lowest cultural
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every country on earth on earth is trying to figure out how do we
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educate our children so they have a sense of cultural identity and
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so that we can pass on the cultural genes of art
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communities
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while being part of the process of globalization happy
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square that circle
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the problem is that trying
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to meet the future
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by doing what they did in the past
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and on the way that alienating
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millions of kids who don’t see any
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purpose in going to school
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when we went to school
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we work and there was story which is if you work hard and did well
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got a college degree you would have a job
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optics don’t believe that
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and the right not to bother
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you’re better having particularly the not it’s not a guarantee anymore
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a particular not if the with
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marginalize has mostly things that you think are important about yourself
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but some people say we have to raise families if this is a breakthrough
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button ready to get such we should
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why would you like them
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internet
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hyped haven’t come across an argument that the safety of learning
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but raisin and of course we should racing
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the problem is that the current system education was designed
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and conceived
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unstructured four different
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it was conceived
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in the intellectual
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culture
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of the enlightenment
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and in the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution
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before the myth of the nineteen century there were no systems of public
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education
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not really a minute ago did you get to my jesuit sooner if if you have the
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money
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but public education payed for from taxation
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compulsory to everybody in three at the point of delivery i was a revolutionary
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idea
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and many people
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objected to they said that not possible
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for many street kids working class georgia benefits from public education
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very capable of learning to read and write and why we spending time on this
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has also built into the whole series of
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uh… assumptions about social structuring capacity it was driven by an
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economic impact of all the time
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but running right through it
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was an intellectual
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model of the mind
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which was essentially unlike mindy of intelligence
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the real intelligence consists in the scholastic assessment opera deductive
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reasoning
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on the knowledge of the classics originate
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what we come to think of as academic
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ability
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and this is deep in the gene
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a public education at the ready to types of people academic a non-factor demic
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small people are not smart people
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on the contents of that is that many brilliant people think they’re not
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because they’ve been judged against this particular view of the month
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so we have a tenth of us
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economic an intellectual
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and mike
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this model
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has caused chaos
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and many people’s minds it’s been great for some dripping people benefited
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wonderfully from it
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but most people
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instead accepted this
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this is the modern academic and its as myspace
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at its best fictitious
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this is the play golf eighty h d
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this is a map of the concerns that lady h_d_
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in america or prescriptions
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for a p_h_d_
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don’t mistake me i don’t mean to say
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there was no such thing
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as attention deficit disorder
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i’m not qualified to serve the risk such a thing
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i know the great majority of psychologists and children pediatrician
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think there is such a thing
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but still amount of disco debate
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but i do know for a fact
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is it’s not an epidemic
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these kids are being medicated
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as routinely as we have apostles taken it
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and on the same
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whimsical bases and for the same reason medical
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all children are living in the most intense is stimulating period in the
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history of the s
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that being besieged with information
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upholstered tension
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every platform computers
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from my iphone some advertise golden’s from hollister television channels
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and what penalizing them out to getting distracted
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from what
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boring stuff
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at school
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for the most part
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it seems we cannot occurrences totally but this is a dat has risen in parallel
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with the growth of standardized testing
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these kids are being given birth to end and at all in all manner of things
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often quite then just rugs
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to get them focused in combat
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but according to this
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attention deficit order
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increases as you travel east across the country
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people start losing interest in oklahoma
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here
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they can hardly think straight in arkansas the completely
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him amber a separate reasons for that i believe the
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it’s a fictitious
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epidemic
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if you think it’s the arts
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another instance exclusivity arts i think it’s also true science
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elements for them
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i said i walked into the because they all of the victims of this mentality
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currently
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the alts
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especially address
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beyond all
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aesthetic
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experience
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anesthetic expenses one which or senses
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all operating that peak
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when your present in the current moment
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when your resonating with the excitement of this thing that your
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experiencing
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when you are fully alive
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and anesthetic is when you shake your senses off
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and get yourself to what’s happening
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and a lot of these drugs
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we’re getting octial mtr education
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bike and it’s surprising them
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and i think we should begin exact opposite we shouldn’t be previously we
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should be waking them up
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to what they have inside themselves
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but the model analysis
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it’s finally we have
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that’s just a magician that is modeled
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the interests and extremism
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and in the image of it
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i could be further examples
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stores also pretty much organize contract reminds upbringing that
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walls separatism it is
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specialized in two separate subjects
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uh… we selected children by batches
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you know we put them through the system by age group
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why do we do that
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no why is that this assumption
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that the most important thing kids have in common is helpful dale
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you know it’s like the most important about was that they could manufacture
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well i know kids were much better than other kids in the same age in different
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disciplines
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or different times the day
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all bets in smaller groups in the mountains
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orton basil to be alone
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if you’re interested in modern london you don’t starkness production line
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mentality
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it’s essentially bob conformity in increasing its about that as you look at
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this time last testing and
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standardized curricula
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and it’s about time two thousand shin
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i believe we’re going to help the situation
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that’s what i mean about changing the paradigm
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there’s a great said even recently of divergent thinking
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to discover the answer divergent thinking this is the same thing
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as creativity
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i define prejudiced if the process of having a ritual ideas that have fun
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divergent thinking isn’t a synonym
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but its fate
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and essential
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capacity to creativity
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it’s the ability to see lots of possible answers
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took action
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what’s a possibly interpreting the question
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to think
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whatever devoted public all actually
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to think not just in loophole
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converge in place
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two-seat multiple answers not one
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so i mean a test of this i mean one kind of product sample of the people might be
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asked to say
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how many uses can you think all four paper clip
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part of routine questions
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most of my complete ten or fifteen
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people go to this might come with two hundred
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and they do that by saying whoa put the paper clip between the foot tall in the
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night of the film about
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and i’d like to have to be a paper clip as we know jim none
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now the test is like a them to fifteen hundred people it’s been a book called
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breakpoints beyond
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and on the critical of the test if you scored above a certain level
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you’d be considered to be a genius of divergent thinking
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so my question to his walk
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percentage of
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the people tested of the fifteen hundred
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saudi genius level for divergent thinking
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i need to one more thing about them
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these work kindergarten children
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what percentage of genius apple
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making a bet
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ninety percent
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now the thing about this wasn’t so long to juvenile study
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so they’ve been test at the same children
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five years later
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ages eight to ten what you think
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they retested system again
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five years later ages
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thirteen to fifteen
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defensive ten different
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here
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his tells an interesting story
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because you can imagine a going away
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you start off not being very good but you get better to get older
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but the shows two things one is we all have this capacity
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and to it mostly deteriorates
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how often this happens these kids as the grown-up
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but one of the most important things onto mine convinces the buy now they’ve
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become educated
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they know the spent ten years of school being told as one insights at the back
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and don’t look
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fondled copy
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because that’s cheating
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then outside schools that’s called collaboration
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this is an because teachers want it this way
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it just because it happens that way
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it’s because it’s been the gene pool of education
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after think differently about him capacity
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back to get over disposed conception of of academic non-academic
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theoretical
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vacation or
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and see if what it is then
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second after recognize that most great learning happens in groups collaboration
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is the stuff of growth
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if you’ve got a nice people in separate them in judge them separately
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former kind of disjunction between them and then that to learning environment
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of flatly
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it’s crucial it about the culture
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of our institutions the habits of the institution
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and the habitats
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that they occupy