To shape the future, we should first shape the education itself. If we give importance to creativity and be aware of the individual differences, education will be the hope of our future. Creativity means to produce not only solutions but problems as well. Thus we can reach originality, original problems, original solutions. Creativity means thinking about different things and making connections from different relationships.
In Turkey, we give the question and we teach the easiest way to the solution. We do not allow the students to think, and we do not give time to solve problems. We are impatient. However, education requires patience. The way to a bright future is not that easy, our children must know how to solve a problem, we do not need prepared questions and answers. We need citizens who can think. The best way to make our children think is to feed their creativity. Let them do something, do not give everything prepared, waiting for them to consume.
We have to teach them how to think in a productive way, they should be able to produce, not only criticize. They should be able to observe products rather than their own in order to collect knowledge and store them in case it will be needed in the production stage. We should let them broaden their imagination. We should prepare self-learning environments that they can learn, and gain practice on their own.
We have a lot to do. So we should move as fast as we can.
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