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One way of thinking no longer fits

What happens is that this child learned that his answer was wrong.

You're wrong, you think wrong. Where as I think that this type of thinking is exactly going to help us solve some of the world's biggest problems. We need extreme thinkers, we need different thinking. We have so many challenges.

A statement by Claire Boonstra, co-author of "Het Onderwijsvragenboek", during the first TEDxconference on Education in the Netherlands, about the limiting effects of the traditional CITO test. In the words of Pablo Picasso: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Also worth seeing on YouTube is the iconic Think Different Apple commercial narrated by Steve Jobs: "The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."

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