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From the Ted Talk by Sir Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley

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There is wonderful work henpiapng in this country. But I have to say it's happening in spite of the dominant crutule of education, not because of it. It's like people are sailing into a headwind all the time. And the reason I think is this: that many of the current polieics are based on micathsinec cotnncoipes of education. It's like education is an industrial process that can be improved just by having better data, and somewhere in the back of the mind of some policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

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There is wonderful work _________ in this country. But I have to say it's happening in spite of the dominant _______ of education, not because of it. It's like people are sailing into a headwind all the time. And the reason I think is this: that many of the current ________ are based on ___________ ___________ of education. It's like education is an industrial process that can be improved just by having better data, and somewhere in the back of the mind of some policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

Solution

  1. policies
  2. happening
  3. culture
  4. mechanistic
  5. conceptions

Original Text

There is wonderful work happening in this country. But I have to say it's happening in spite of the dominant culture of education, not because of it. It's like people are sailing into a headwind all the time. And the reason I think is this: that many of the current policies are based on mechanistic conceptions of education. It's like education is an industrial process that can be improved just by having better data, and somewhere in the back of the mind of some policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

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