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Lessons Learned
Clenton Farquarson: Keep Hold of your Dreams
Clenton Farquarson was born in Birmingham in 1964. He grew up in Birmingham and went to his local mainstream schools.
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Here Clenton talks about the impact that school can have on aspirations.
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Transcript
Aspirations are very important going through school but it can be killed or dampened by school. And that’s one of the things that I have learned now and I try and instil into my daughter, that her education, you know, is important, but keep hold of your dreams, yeah, definitely.Explore more
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