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In 1956 a group of educators mapped how thinking actually works — six rungs from remembering up to creating. Seventy years later, most classrooms still test the bottom rung and wonder why students can't climb. A quiet look at the ladder we forgot to use.

We think ambition is the child who wants to top the class. But the boy at the back drawing capes in his margins — the one we tell to be realistic — is holding the biggest dream in the room. What if school's quiet job is to cut it down to size?