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The Girl Drawing God
Robinson's canonical anecdote—a child declaring "They will in a minute" when told nobody knows what God looks like—which captured the absence of the fear of being wrong that creative work requires and that the educational system systematically installs.
Robinson told the story often: a teacher walks through a classroom, stops at a child's desk, and asks what she is drawing. The girl says she is drawing God. The teacher replies that nobody knows what God looks like. The girl says, "They will in a minute." Robinson loved the story because it captured what creative work requires and what schools systematically destroy. The girl did not hesitate. She did not qualify. She did not check whether her project conformed to external standards. She was engaged in making something, and the making was its own authority. By the time she reaches secondary school, she will have learned that drawing God is a category error, that art is subjective and therefore unserious, that the safest strategy in any educational context is to reproduce what the teacher expects.
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The anecdote operates at several levels simultaneously. At