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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/rote-learning-school-snuffs-out-creativity&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The shallow form of schooling with its emphasis on information kills rather than develops curiosity and creativity, all made worse by the importance given to &amp;#39;marks&amp;#39; recorded in exams. An overhaul is needed but not one driven by digital delusions.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The three big C&amp;rsquo;s that are necessary for innovation are competence, curiosity, and creativity. Competence provides the basis of creativity and it requires that conceptual knowledge is properly understood and internalised. Radical ideas come only to people who have mastered prior knowledge and are aware of the laws that nature constrains us with. It was only because Albert Einstein understood the concepts of Newtonian physics so well that he could grasp its limitations. &amp;#39;Innovations&amp;#39; without competence belong to the realm of fantasy and pseudoscience. A domestic &amp;#39;innovation&amp;#39; of this variety can be seen here.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/rote-learning-school-snuffs-out-creativity&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/rote-learning-school-snuffs-out-creativity&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Anurag Mehra teaches engineering and policy at IIT Bombay. His policy focus is the interface between technology, culture, and politics.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The shallow form of schooling with its emphasis on information kills rather than develops curiosity and creativity, all made worse by the importance given to &#39;marks&#39; recorded in exams. An overhaul is needed but not one driven by digital delusions.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Policymakers seem to have a deep love for the word &#39;innovation&#39;. The Department of Science &amp; Technology (DST) released a draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP 2020) with its apparent focus on innovation and the avowed objective of &ldquo;positioning India among the top three scientific superpowers in the decade to come.&rdquo; The foot soldiers of innovation are people, especially young, creative, competent ones with passions and dreams. But is our education system producing such individuals?</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">On the face of it, it looks like we are producing prodigies in plenty and of &ldquo;perfect&rdquo; quality, as indicated by the results of the class 10 and 12 board examinations. In 2020, some students scored a full 500/500 and the number of students who secured an aggregate of 95% and more doubled in comparison with the previous year.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">But what is the ground reality?</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The three big C&rsquo;s that are necessary for innovation are competence, curiosity, and creativity. Competence provides the basis of creativity and it requires that conceptual knowledge is properly understood and internalised. Radical ideas come only to people who have mastered prior knowledge and are aware of the laws that nature constrains us with. It was only because Albert Einstein understood the concepts of Newtonian physics so well that he could grasp its limitations. &#39;Innovations&#39; without competence belong to the realm of fantasy and pseudoscience. A domestic &#39;innovation&#39; of this variety can be seen here.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">There is much eulogisation of &#39;out of the box&#39; thinking in popular writing. This discourse constructs a clich&eacute; that brilliant ideas arrive from &#39;nowhere&#39; and simply appear inside minds that are intrinsically creative. In real life, there is no &#39;nowhere&#39;. The apple falling on Isaac Newton&rsquo;s head &mdash; which triggered his &#39;discovery&#39; of gravity &mdash; is simply a metaphor for how small events can drive curious minds to think of deeper things.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Another piece of folklore celebrates that some of the uber rich pioneers who founded technology companies, such as Steve Jobs (Apple) or Bill Gates (Microsoft), were college dropouts. Hence, it follows that in order to be technology innovators, one does not need to go to college. At the very least, it suggests that &#39;education&#39; is not necessary for &#39;innovation&#39;; it might even be a hindrance. But the truth is that Gates was well versed in coding and understood how a microcomputer worked. Jobs worked as a video game designer and that ultimately led him to focus on the design of Apple&rsquo;s hardware.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/rote-learning-school-snuffs-out-creativity">click here</a> to read more.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify">The shallow form of schooling with its emphasis on information kills rather than develops curiosity and creativity, all made worse by the importance given to &#39;marks&#39; recorded in exams. An overhaul is needed but not one driven by digital delusions.</p>

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<p style="text-align:justify">But what is the ground reality?</p>

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Rote Learning and the Destruction of Creativity -Anurag Mehra

-TheIndiaForum.in Anurag Mehra teaches engineering and policy at IIT Bombay. His policy focus is the interface between technology, culture, and politics. The shallow form of schooling with its emphasis on information kills rather than develops curiosity and creativity, all made worse by the importance given to 'marks' recorded in exams. An overhaul is needed but not one driven by digital delusions. Policymakers seem to have a deep love for the word 'innovation'. The Department of Science & Technology (DST) released a draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP 2020) with its apparent focus on innovation and the avowed objective of “positioning India among the top three scientific superpowers in the decade to come.” The foot soldiers of innovation are people, especially young, creative, competent ones with passions and dreams. But is our education system producing such individuals? On the face of it, it looks like we are producing prodigies in plenty and of “perfect” quality, as indicated by the results of the class 10 and 12 board examinations. In 2020, some students scored a full 500/500 and the number of students who secured an aggregate of 95% and more doubled in comparison with the previous year. But what is the ground reality? The three big C’s that are necessary for innovation are competence, curiosity, and creativity. Competence provides the basis of creativity and it requires that conceptual knowledge is properly understood and internalised. Radical ideas come only to people who have mastered prior knowledge and are aware of the laws that nature constrains us with. It was only because Albert Einstein understood the concepts of Newtonian physics so well that he could grasp its limitations. 'Innovations' without competence belong to the realm of fantasy and pseudoscience. A domestic 'innovation' of this variety can be seen here. There is much eulogisation of 'out of the box' thinking in popular writing. This discourse constructs a cliché that brilliant ideas arrive from 'nowhere' and simply appear inside minds that are intrinsically creative. In real life, there is no 'nowhere'. The apple falling on Isaac Newton’s head — which triggered his 'discovery' of gravity — is simply a metaphor for how small events can drive curious minds to think of deeper things. Another piece of folklore celebrates that some of the uber rich pioneers who founded technology companies, such as Steve Jobs (Apple) or Bill Gates (Microsoft), were college dropouts. Hence, it follows that in order to be technology innovators, one does not need to go to college. At the very least, it suggests that 'education' is not necessary for 'innovation'; it might even be a hindrance. But the truth is that Gates was well versed in coding and understood how a microcomputer worked. Jobs worked as a video game designer and that ultimately led him to focus on the design of Apple’s hardware. Please click here to read more.