Creating a safe place for risk
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There has to be is an element of risk.

Passion to explore and create
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Another element found in play is passion.

Mentors and models
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The next one is mentors and models

The light in children’s eyes
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There’s a spirit inside every child and every day it seems to change because they’re interested in new things and in different things and it has kept me so fully alive.

Being productive
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Being productive

The first place to be – nature
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One of the things that I know about children is that the first place they need to be is in nature. It’s in the outside. It’s in the sand, the dirt and the water and the leaves and spinning and running, and running full bore. And that’s what I don’t see any more. What I see is they’re programmed.