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Optimizing for grades kills passion
We get educated out of our creativity. We unlearn our willingness to take risks and be wrong. Robinson goes on in his talk to define creativity as “the process of having original ideas that have value.” Our education system is educating people out of having original ideas that have value. Let that notion sink in for a moment.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Students don’t trust that curiosity will pay off. They trust that optimization will - which is completely understandable. The result is a generation of workers trained to anticipate what’s expected, not to invent what’s needed. I did the same thing.
Success is no longer linear. It is not defined by one exam, one school or one path. When we truly accept that as a society, the pressure eases and our children finally get room to grow into who they really are.We also forget something simple. Not every child is meant to score an A. The bell curve exists because human abilities are naturally varied.... See more