Formal eduction tends to limit creativity

Summary

• Formal education systems emphasize learning pre-existing material instead of creative solutions

Details

• Formal education provides specific texts to read, experiments to perform, and tests where only one answer is correct.
• This can lead to killing your interest, and not necessarily teaching you something about the topic

Quotes

It limits or even destroys creativity. In school, you do as you’re told. You don’t have any leeway. Your course of study is chosen for you. Your texts are assigned. Your materials, lab experiments, and resources all come from prepared lists from which you can’t deviate. There is only one answer. Most of the time, there is only one method as well. You’re told to approach problems and questions in certain, specific, and fixed manners. Even if you can better understand a concept through creative thinking and self-driven investigations, you’re expected to conform. The compounding frustration, as it turns out, either turns you off the subject or doesn’t teach you anything at all, usually both.

Reflections

• This is true, i think. Formal education is good for teaching you stuff that is already discovered.
• A lot may depend on the individual skills adn interest of the teacher.

References

• The Science of Self-Learning - How to Teach Yourself Anything, Learn More in Less Time, and Direct Your Own Education - Peter Hollins

Related

• Creativity is a fundamental quality of being human
• Creativity doesnt happen by chance, we need to have a creative process
• Creativity comes from combining previously unconnected things
• Jehovah is the originator of creativity
• Traditional schooling methods induce passivity in learning
• Self-education is the only kind of education there is - Isaac Asimov
• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education - Albert Einstein