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From the Ted Talk by Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears

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Education. When I see a classroom that looks like this, can you iinmage how this sounds? I am forced to ask myself a question. ("Do arcctethis have ears?") (Laughter) Now, that's a little uifnar. Some of my best fdeinrs are architects. (Laughter) And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings. Here's a case in point. This is a 32-million-pound flagship academy school which was built quite recently in the U.K. and designed by one of Britain's top architects. Unfortunately, it was designed like a corporate hduerqrateas, with a vast central atrium and classrooms ldieang off it with no back wlals at all. The children couldn't hear their teachers. They had to go back in and spend 600,000 pounds putting the walls in. Let's stop this madness of open plan classrooms right now, please.

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Education. When I see a classroom that looks like this, can you _______ how this sounds? I am forced to ask myself a question. ("Do __________ have ears?") (Laughter) Now, that's a little ______. Some of my best _______ are architects. (Laughter) And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings. Here's a case in point. This is a 32-million-pound flagship academy school which was built quite recently in the U.K. and designed by one of Britain's top architects. Unfortunately, it was designed like a corporate ____________, with a vast central atrium and classrooms _______ off it with no back _____ at all. The children couldn't hear their teachers. They had to go back in and spend 600,000 pounds putting the walls in. Let's stop this madness of open plan classrooms right now, please.

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  1. friends
  2. leading
  3. walls
  4. architects
  5. imagine
  6. headquarters
  7. unfair

Original Text


Education. When I see a classroom that looks like this, can you imagine how this sounds? I am forced to ask myself a question. ("Do architects have ears?") (Laughter) Now, that's a little unfair. Some of my best friends are architects. (Laughter) And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings. Here's a case in point. This is a 32-million-pound flagship academy school which was built quite recently in the U.K. and designed by one of Britain's top architects. Unfortunately, it was designed like a corporate headquarters, with a vast central atrium and classrooms leading off it with no back walls at all. The children couldn't hear their teachers. They had to go back in and spend 600,000 pounds putting the walls in. Let's stop this madness of open plan classrooms right now, please.

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