http://www.MyEphemerae.com/do-schools-kill-creativity/ Random Thoughts from James S. Huggins Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:46:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.MyEphemerae.com/do-schools-kill-creativity/#comment-21521 lance mclean Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:22:50 +0000 http://www.MyEphemerae.com/?p=101#comment-21521 That was a fabulous talk. The message really resonated with me. I have a PhD in physics and struggled mightily to function within the academic system. I am really fortunate that now I am able to utilize at least a nominally more diverse set of abilities in my career than was required of me to get through the education system. I remember when I was majoring in music and mom told me to make sure I got my teaching certification do I would "have something to fall back on". This is in keeping with the idea that the arts simply aren't valued within academia as much as other endeavors and moreover it isn't expected that a person would obtain a degree in music just for its own sake and go from there. I switched to business. Disaster. It wasn't until I quit school altogether that I decided that I wanted to learn physics. But even then the structure was difficult. There were times when I as studying for my PdH qualifying exams that it physically hurt to sit in the cube and do the math. I'm just wired different than most of the folks who do what I do. Some people however, understand this and view it as an asset. Some do. So yeah, I can relate. That was a fabulous talk. The message really resonated with me. I have a PhD in physics and struggled mightily to function within the academic system. I am really fortunate that now I am able to utilize at least a nominally more diverse set of abilities in my career than was required of me to get through the education system. I remember when I was majoring in music and mom told me to make sure I got my teaching certification do I would “have something to fall back on”. This is in keeping with the idea that the arts simply aren’t valued within academia as much as other endeavors and moreover it isn’t expected that a person would obtain a degree in music just for its own sake and go from there. I switched to business. Disaster. It wasn’t until I quit school altogether that I decided that I wanted to learn physics. But even then the structure was difficult. There were times when I as studying for my PdH qualifying exams that it physically hurt to sit in the cube and do the math. I’m just wired different than most of the folks who do what I do. Some people however, understand this and view it as an asset. Some do. So yeah, I can relate.

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