We are born creative geniuses but the educational system dumbs us down, according to NASA scientists.

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[–]chottohen 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's absolutely true. In public schools, for example, we are rewarded for sitting quietly and pretending to listen. The ability to regurgitate information is another rewarded skill. Meanwhile the truly talented are bored out of their minds.

[–]trident765 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Effort" is another thing they reward. Write an essay.that is short and to the point and you will get a bad grade.

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It is designed to. The goal is to make docile workers and consumers. For example, they no longer teach the trivium.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How do they know school are the issue if they didn't see any difference between kids who went to school and those who didn't? It's just their guess that's the factor.

Rather it's more likely as the brain matures they way you think changes to one which is more useful to you as an adult.

We already know the brain does this with observational skills. Children have much better observation than adults, they will notice pretty much everything which is going on around them. However this is highly distracting and stops them from being able to concentrate and focus so as we grow up we lose that ability for our own good.

Likely there's a similar trade off with imagination and creativity.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In 1968.

"In 1968, Gearge Land (George Land & Beth Jarman, 1992) gave 1,600 five-year-olds a creativity test to see how highly creative they scored. This was the same test used by NASA to select innovative engineers and scientists. He re-tested the same children when they were of 10 years of age (19781, and again at 15 years of age (1983). He later tested 280,000 adults to see how highly creative they scored. "

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I always find these types of arguments to be dubious. They claim that randomness is creativity. That the person who just does or says the craziest thing is the one who is the most creative. I have to disagree with that premise. Creativity is a description of the act of creating something useful, beautiful, engaging, or otherwise of value. Besides living on your parents fridge your scribbles from age 2 are not any of those. But as you age and are taught to draw perhaps you can create art. That art will be less random than scribbles but it is more valuable.