Do schools kill creativity?

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Good morning. How are you?
(Audience) Good.
It's been great, hasn't it? I've been by the whole thing. In fact, I'm leaving.

There have been three themes , which are to what I want to talk about. One is the in all of the that we've had and in all of the here; just the of it and the of it.
The second is that it's put us in a place in terms of the future. No idea how this may . . Actually, what I find is, . Don't you? . If you're at a dinner party, and you say -- actually, you're not often at dinner parties, frankly.
If you work in education, you're not asked.
And you're never asked back, curiously. That's strange to me. But if you are, and you say to somebody, you know, they say, "?" and you say , you can see the run from their face. They're like, "Oh my God. Why me?"
"My all week."
But if , they pin you to the wall, because it's one of those things that goes deep with people, am I right? Like and and other things. So , and I think . We have a huge vested interest in it, partly because that we can't grasp.
If you think of it, in 2065. , despite all the that's been on parade for the past four days, in five years' time. And yet, we're meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary.
And the third part of this is that we've all agreed, , on -- . I mean, Sirena last night was a , wasn't she? Just . And she's , but I think she's not, , exceptional in the whole of childhood. What you have there is . And my contention is, , and we squander them, .
So , and .
My contention is that , and .
Thank you.
That was it, by the way. Thank you very much.
So, 15 minutes left.
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