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If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

By Kenneth Robinson
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Ken Robinson, Kt, PhD, (1950–2020) was a British educational advisor and author. He called for a total revolution on the current education system, and his TED Talk on schools’ killing of creativity is the most viewed TED Talk of all time. In 2003 he was knighted in recognition of his life’s work.

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