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From the Ted Talk by The TED Interview: Sir Ken Robinson (still) wants an education revolution

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KR: Well, yes. It was interesting how it happened, because we didn't really pay attention to people's disabilities. That wasn't what defined us. I mean, I didn't think of myself as having polio, and I didn't think of the kids I was talking to as having cerebral palsy. They were interesting or they weren't. We were just kids kicking it around. But what became celar was that the system itself didn't have great etecptnaxois for the students, and I wouldn't be doing what I do now but for two or three people who crossed my path. One of them was a school inspector cleald Charles Stratford, who came into my classroom one day. I guess I was pnhsuig 10, and I was sitting back doing something or other. I was cathntig, I remember, with one of my good friends at school, a guy called Robert _____? who had hydrocephalus, enlarged slukl. And I chatted with this guy for a while, to this man who I found out later was Charles srottrfad, and he disappeared.

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KR: Well, yes. It was interesting how it happened, because we didn't really pay attention to people's disabilities. That wasn't what defined us. I mean, I didn't think of myself as having polio, and I didn't think of the kids I was talking to as having cerebral palsy. They were interesting or they weren't. We were just kids kicking it around. But what became _____ was that the system itself didn't have great ____________ for the students, and I wouldn't be doing what I do now but for two or three people who crossed my path. One of them was a school inspector ______ Charles Stratford, who came into my classroom one day. I guess I was _______ 10, and I was sitting back doing something or other. I was ________, I remember, with one of my good friends at school, a guy called Robert _____? who had hydrocephalus, enlarged _____. And I chatted with this guy for a while, to this man who I found out later was Charles _________, and he disappeared.

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  3. expectations
  4. skull
  5. called
  6. clear
  7. pushing

Original Text

KR: Well, yes. It was interesting how it happened, because we didn't really pay attention to people's disabilities. That wasn't what defined us. I mean, I didn't think of myself as having polio, and I didn't think of the kids I was talking to as having cerebral palsy. They were interesting or they weren't. We were just kids kicking it around. But what became clear was that the system itself didn't have great expectations for the students, and I wouldn't be doing what I do now but for two or three people who crossed my path. One of them was a school inspector called Charles Stratford, who came into my classroom one day. I guess I was pushing 10, and I was sitting back doing something or other. I was chatting, I remember, with one of my good friends at school, a guy called Robert _____? who had hydrocephalus, enlarged skull. And I chatted with this guy for a while, to this man who I found out later was Charles Stratford, and he disappeared.

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