“… we all started life with a da Vinci like insatiable curiosity. Most of us learned, once we got to school, that answers were more important than questions. In most cases schooling does not develop curiosity, delight in ambiguity and question asking skill. Rather the thinking skill that’s rewarded is figuring out the right answer, that is, the answer held by the person in authority – the teacher. This authority-pleasing, question-suppressing, rule-following approach to education may serve to provide society with assembly line workers and bureaucrats, but it doesn’t do much to prepare us for a new renaissance.”
from How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
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