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High IQ is not the unique foundation of genius, although geniuses usually do have high IQs. It is how geniuses use their brain, which is quite different from the way "normal" people use them that is critical. The reason we have so few geniuses is down to the failure of education.
How does our educational system inhibit student's ability to develop deep understanding and knowledge of the subjects they study? It's by transmitting subject matter linearly, to their "left-brain" only. By strongly discouraging creative thinking, there it stays, never transformed into the "right-brain" pictures that give it meaning to the students.
The drive to create "normal" people severely inhibits perception and comprehension by persecuting creativity and original, holistic, integrative thinking. The goal to enforce conformity to "norms" reinforces people's analytical, linear, left-brain processing - their ability to retain, organize and plan to these rules and regulations. Simultaneously, persecution of creative problem solving diminishes comprehension, insight and deep understanding. In effect, our educational system conditions students to be able to "do" and to not be able to "see". It literally "dumb students down" by so strongly influencing how they are allowed to use their brains.
http://www.meaning.ca/articles/basis_of_genius.htm
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High IQ is not the unique foundation of genius, although geniuses usually do have high IQs. It is how geniuses use their brain, which is quite different from the way "normal" people use them that is critical. The reason we have so few geniuses is down to the failure of education.
How does our educational system inhibit student's ability to develop deep understanding and knowledge of the subjects they study? It's by transmitting subject matter linearly, to their "left-brain" only. By strongly discouraging creative thinking, there it stays, never transformed into the "right-brain" pictures that give it meaning to the students.
The drive to create "normal" people severely inhibits perception and comprehension by persecuting creativity and original, holistic, integrative thinking. The goal to enforce conformity to "norms" reinforces people's analytical, linear, left-brain processing - their ability to retain, organize and plan to these rules and regulations. Simultaneously, persecution of creative problem solving diminishes comprehension, insight and deep understanding. In effect, our educational system conditions students to be able to "do" and to not be able to "see". It literally "dumb students down" by so strongly influencing how they are allowed to use their brains.
http://www.meaning.ca/articles/basis_of_genius.htm
posted by jojo at 1:33 AM
2 Comments:
I agree with the education system. The education system fails almost throughout the world. Thats why we have so few geniuses. Most practical skills that are required are missing from our system. Education needs to be more practical rather than focus on theory.
i appreciate your sharing your thoughts, but you should credit your sources, or at least paraphrase your posts, and recast them as your own ideas. or both. i know i'd be pretty unhappy if someone were claiming my well-researched, well-thought-out and well-written ideas as his or her own. if i had any such ideas, that is.
unless you're cliff havener, in which case, forget what i said. i never would have guessed ol' cliffie was so freakin' fine. :-)
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