Why did you go to school? Because someone made you.
Why did you learn to read and write and not dance or sing? Because reading and writing were most important. Because someone decided they were.
Who decided? Not you.
Powerful ideas about how public education falters are discussed in this TED talk by Ken Robinson. He's terribly articulate and best of all funny as he tells of what potential lies in each child if only we choose to develop him/her completely, and not stifle him/her through the structure of public education.
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