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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 30 Nov 2016

      When I was a kid, the goal was to be smart. Not to get a lot done, because you can't easily test that.

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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 30 Nov 2016
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      As a parent I should focus on what's hard for schools to teach: imagination, initiative, independence.

      12 replies 77 retweets 306 likes
    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 30 Nov 2016
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      I have the better deal. Teaching imagination is a lot more fun than teaching times tables.

      8 replies 18 retweets 122 likes
      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 30 Nov 2016

      Of course imagination can be taught. (You find the kind of imagination they already have, and encourage more of it.)

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        1. Andrew Frawley  🧢‏ @TweetAtAndrew 30 Nov 2016
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          and a mindset that any skill in any person can be developed

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        1. ⦿ Alex‏ @alexhorre 30 Nov 2016
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          Finland

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        1. Samar Tomar(seekingWisdom!)‏ @_samarTomar 30 Nov 2016
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          kids have incredible power to imagine, if its encouraged, can come out in form of creativity.

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        1. Levy Paul-emmanuel  🇪🇺‏ @levype 30 Nov 2016
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          imagination and rationality can't be taught, but creativity and logic can. Important to distinguish.

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        1. parents’ nook‏ @Parents_Nook 30 Nov 2016
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          so much agreed .i just sit in front of my daughter snd watch her imagination go wild,i cant imagine the way she can.

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        2. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps 30 Nov 2016
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          Teaching imagination is perhaps the hardest thing humans can do. It is just barely possible. Encouraging imagination is much easier.

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        3. Laurens Gunnarsen‏ @MathPrinceps 30 Nov 2016
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          The challenges exceed those of transmitting tacit knowledge, for one must also efface one's self, to avoid encouraging imitation.

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        1. Zachary Wallman‏ @ZacharyWallman 1 Dec 2016
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          this alone makes you the kind of dad that the world needs more of.

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