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Science 13 January 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5758, p. 155
DOI: 10.1126/science.311.5758.155d
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"My dangerous idea is one that most people immediately reject without giving it serious thought: School is bad for kids. It makes them unhappy, and as tests show, they don't learn much. … Just call school off. Turn them all into apartment houses."

--Psychologist and computer scientist Robert Shank, one of 117 deep thinkers who have so far responded to this year's annual New Year's question by the Edge Foundation: "What's your dangerous idea?" (www.edge.org)




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