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Education Kills Imagination | Abby Nahnah | TEDxColomiers

1,944 views · Published 6 November 2018 · 4:52 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Imagine you are 7. You are in the class room and you are telling a story that the teacher asked you to prepare.
Your audience is fascinated. What would you do ?
I embellished the facts to make it more and more interesting.
The teacher did not appreciate the use of my imagination and tried to kill it by sending me straight to the psychologists’.
I believe in many cases the system of education is trying to kill our imagination. My name is Abby, I’m 16 years old.
I live in Toulouse. I go to the Lycée St Joseph Nay, a boarding school in the Pyrenees where I do lots of sports: riding, boxing and weight lifting. 
I am in 1ère ES and I would like to be a fighter pilot one day. I am very glad to do the TedX talk! This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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