Money, Education and Creative Thinking
Suppose you spend a lot of money on someone's education. Send him/her to the best Schools/Colleges and Universities. You hire the best tutors to teach him. He graduates from the University with good grades. But will this pupil have the abilities of creative thinking, creative designing?
I started this thread when I came to know that Doha's Olympic Logo was designed by the students at VCUQ. Lets forget for a moment that the logo is Qatar's logo and has been designed by the VCUQ students.
My question is:
Can education compete with talent? Can education outclass a creative designer with no formal education.
When I was in the University I had chinese students studying with me and due to the peer pressure those Chinese students worked really hard like studying for 12 hours a day, Whereas on the other hand there were students who studied for like 2 hours every day. Both group of students got good grades. Can hardwork make anyone a creative thinker?
Can top class education make you create masterpiece?
TO THE VCUQ STUDENTS: No offence or disrespect to your design. Its a cool design though I had to look at the design very carefully to realize that it is Al-Dawah written in clockwise manner.
This could have been another forum topic
what makes a student work hard and yearn for good grades. Is it the greed of money or to be the best? What if a student has all the money and facilities in the world. What motivation will he/she have to study?
Nice Examples but the more prolific geniuses, inventors and researchers were not good students rather they all resented school and were disliked by teachers like edison, einstein.
Personally I believer that education dampens one's talents and his abilities as it puts restraints on one minds and does not allow you to wander whereas in order to be a genius your mind has to wander so that it can seek the unexplored horizons.
The problem with today's education is that it gives you a specified path to stroll on whereas geniuses and the intellectuals always think outside the box and rather than following the footsteps of others they create their own paths and destinations.
I once attended a hacker convention where most of the brilliant hacker I met did not have any fancy degrees.
Well… of course no any education can make you talented (creativity is a talent as well as ability to sing or ability to paint) .Education sharpens your talent, your ability to do things. On the other hand, the talent does need to be developed. Having only talent which is undeveloped by the formal education ,is not enough.
Mozart was 4 years old when his father, who was a professional teacher, began to teach him playing piano (at that time clavier)… at the age of 5 Mozart began composing, at 9 he created his first symphony. Who knows whether world even knew Mozart, if his father wouldn’t start teaching him so early… Maybe he would just stay a good composer or piano player, but his name wouldn’t last in history forever. Education developed his genius, sharpened it, it made him MOZART.
If you don’t have talent, you still can develop your skills up to some level, but you will never be a genius in this field and won't be able to creat anything significant . . And also no matter how talented you are, you won’t reach the highest level without formal education. (very few exceptions are existing)
knox, you ask “can education compete with talent”? I am not sure what do you mean, but education and talent are not competitors, they are partners, close co-workers..
Formula of success is Talent + Education. And obviously, the deeper talent and the stronger education are the better result is.
Agreed one should have an open mind for learning...
It depends on the field and the persons passions. Hardwork pays off in terms of the trials to reach his destination while on the job creativity does play an important part It all depends on the balance... Simple hardworkers are realistic people who will persevere while creative people bank on short lived success....... Passion+Hard work+Creativity all depends on balance but the weights of the first two are important in endurance.....