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Unlearning the Rules of School

"We entered school as question marks, but graduated as periods."

- Dr. John Holt, educator

We all started out creative. Remember the sand box, with your bare toes and your plastic bucket?

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Ask children in kindergarten if they like to sing, dance, or draw. All hands go up. Ask a group of adults and only about 15 percent of the hands go up. Then someone will ask, "What kind of dancing?" or "Can I have two beers first?"

What happened in the years between kindergarte

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