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How schools stifle creativity

Sir Ken Robinson: We're born with great natural talentsHe says schools systematically suppress many of those innate talentsSchools use testing and other systems to narrowly assess students, he saysHe says they devalue forms of creativity that don't fit... Full Article at CNN

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