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The problem with conformity in education is that people are not standardized to begin with. Let me be clear: in challenging the idea of conformity in schools, I’m not advocating antisocial behavior. All communities depend on agreed conventions of conduct. If people consistently flout them, the community itself may founder. By conformity, I mean the institutional tendency in education to judge students by a single standard of ability and to treat those who don’t meet it as “less able” or “disabled”— as deviations from the norm. In this sense, the alternative to conformity is not condoning disruption; it is celebrating diversity. Students’ individual talents take many forms and they should be fostered in similarly diverse ways.
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Sir Ken Robinson
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