You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Donβt do music. Youβre not going to be a musician. Donβt do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken. β¨ How Do Schools Kill Creativity?. TED Radio Hour with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 3, 2014.
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