Before they sold a billion records…
[Paul McCartney] said he hated music at school. He went through the whole of his education and nobody thought he had any musical talent whatsoever [...]
One of the students in the same class was George Harrison [...] And nobody thought he had any talent, either.
So this one teacher in Liverpool in the 1950s had half The Beatles in his class.
And he missed it.
— Sir Ken Robinson
If you’re a fan of Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk, “Do schools kill creativity?“ you may be interested in another talk he gave at UCLA to discuss his new book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.