This is not the sort of intelligence that our education systems are programmed to develop in our young people.
Our education systems were historically designed around the needs of society during the Industrial Revolution. That was to produce a cheap/skilled and semi-literate labour force. From this perspective not much seems to have changed (with languages and Maths forming the predominant subjects) except that we have now moved towards an Information Technology based revolution which requires that our young people are kept up to date in using the latest technologies.
These outdated systems do nothing to encourage and foster creativity. Such systems are based on a limited understanding of the definition of intelligence. One that assumes that we are all very much the same and that our abilities to understand and operate within society are quite similar and linear. That is – subject to our genes and socio-economic position we can pretty much all be trained to be good little workers who will continue to enslave ourselves for the benefit of those with power and money. Continue reading