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Creativity in Education
The point of the 11-plus exam was to identify kids who had the ability and inclination to benefit from a grammar school curriculum. The most practical step I took to having any kind of career when I was 16 was to send off for a set of application forms to become a manager at Marks and Spencers. It's what I happen to talk about on the TED stage. And I did write a report about it and I am interested in it. But it's not the be all an end all of what I think should be going on in education.