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Post by joeweston on Aug 10, 2011 0:02:16 GMT -5
When Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman team up it always manages to terrify everyone reading for the future of our nation. Their latest essay "The Creativity Crisis" is no exception. The two discuss how our fascination with standards and Tiger Mom-esque vigor stifle creativity and give as rigid mental framework. This in turn makes us brittle, and ill equipped for life's hurdles. The essay remarks on how we've made a generation of workers who throw their hands up at problems that more effort can't solve. Commenting on the surge of high school and college drop-outs, they remark "They’re quitting because they’re discouraged and bored, not because they’re dark, depressed, anxious, or neurotic." As they rightly point out, a lack of creativity is a big problem for our society. We tack on assignment after assignment looking for right answers rather than new ones. Plus, as Bronson and Merryman note, our increasingly scores and standards-skewed system only serves to exacerbate this crisis.
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