Thank you for the post, I also feel frustrated by this, being a creative person having grown up in a purely academic public school system.
Our social system seems to value certain paths of knowledge than others. This hierarchy will never serve our evolution. It seems to be a kind of looped feedback cycle where we educate only to perpetuate our current model of society with the illusion that this is somehow ideal.
I also found this interesting, though sometimes off topic:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Thank you for the post, I also feel frustrated by this, being a creative person having grown up in a purely academic public school system.
Our social system seems to value certain paths of knowledge than others. This hierarchy will never serve our evolution. It seems to be a kind of looped feedback cycle where we educate only to perpetuate our current model of society with the illusion that this is somehow ideal.