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“Society puts too much emphasis on academic excellence forgetting there’s a real world outside the classroom. Measuring intelligence through ‘one size fits all’ is limiting and sometimes those who fall by the wayside can be the most important of them all”

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Book:Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
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