System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
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System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
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.
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