One of the many information sources I read on creativity has been very busy as of late discussing this topic.
A colleague opined "our education system is geared up to make us take ourselves very seriously, not to mention become little drones who take up loans to go to university, where we are taught how to become the best mercenaries to corporations (not dissimilar to [a person], who fought for whoever could offer him better wages and benefits), become hugely in debt by the time we are 22 - and ruthless employers love employees who are in debt, because they cannot afford to lose their job!"
There are numerous questions that this observation raises, but one that my colleague hit upon that I'm pondering.
Are organizations looking for "the coporation man " (as defined in Jonathan Cape's 1972 best seller by the same name)? One would think that we're well beyond that stage (but perhaps not)
Are the way we educate and train people today (in post secondary as well as adult education), biased toward "non creative" areas? If so, what is the consequence of this?
