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From the Ted Talk by Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like?

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I do know that education is a huge part of it. I witnessed this firsthand. I was a Montessori kid for the first few years of my education, and what that eoiautcdn taught me is that the world is an interesting place and my job is to go explore it. The school stopped in third grade, so then I eentred the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the beefnit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clrek or a leaborr, but at the time it felt like the job was to kind of bore me into some submission with what was going on around me. We have to do better than this. We cannot keep turning out Bills.

Open Cloze

I do know that education is a huge part of it. I witnessed this firsthand. I was a Montessori kid for the first few years of my education, and what that _________ taught me is that the world is an interesting place and my job is to go explore it. The school stopped in third grade, so then I _______ the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the _______ of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a _____ or a _______, but at the time it felt like the job was to kind of bore me into some submission with what was going on around me. We have to do better than this. We cannot keep turning out Bills.

Solution

  1. education
  2. entered
  3. laborer
  4. benefit
  5. clerk

Original Text

I do know that education is a huge part of it. I witnessed this firsthand. I was a Montessori kid for the first few years of my education, and what that education taught me is that the world is an interesting place and my job is to go explore it. The school stopped in third grade, so then I entered the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer, but at the time it felt like the job was to kind of bore me into some submission with what was going on around me. We have to do better than this. We cannot keep turning out Bills.

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Important Words

  1. benefit
  2. bills
  3. bore
  4. clerk
  5. education
  6. entered
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  25. school
  26. stopped
  27. submission
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  30. time
  31. turning
  32. witnessed
  33. world
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