Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what t…

Ken Robinson
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working. ✨ How to escape education's death valley. TED Talk, www.ted.com. April, 2013.
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