Innovation and creativity
Is promoting maths and science education the best way to stimulate future innovation? This was a question asked at an international debate moderated by a respectable weekly. Well, the answer can be both 'yes' and 'no.' Of course, maths and science play an important role. But I believe that true innovation comes from a solid education, which includes liberal arts as well as economics, business and various disciplinary fields with different worldviews. Improved education in all fields might have a more successful result. Learning to develop thinking does not necessarily come from highly structured classes of maths and science. Many innovators in history were philosophers. There are many examples of innovations by the men who did not have maths and science education. Aristotle's views about science were remarkable though he was not educated in science. Gottfried Leibniz was educated in philosophy, but he had contributed a lot to maths and science. Einstein did not start out in math. He said that imagination is everything. These are just a few examples of where innovation and creativity comes from.
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