"Would you really want a little Picasso in your class? How about a baby Gertrude Stein? Or a teenage Eminem? The point is that the classroom isn’t designed for impulsive expression – that’s called talking out of turn. Instead, it’s all about obeying group dynamics and exerting focused attention. Those are important life skills, of course, but decades of psychological research suggest that such skills have little to do with creativity."
~ - Jonah Lehrer, Classroom Creativity via The Frontal Cortex (via Alex Tabarrok) (via joegle) (via stoweboyd)