Traditional Education Limits Intellectual Development

Several studies carried out by educational experts, and of recent, by Sir Ken Robinson have revealed that children are born with a lot of creativity and ability to engage in divergent thinking.

This innate ability consistently deteriorates as children get older and get more years of traditional education which indoctrinates them with the sense that there is only one right answer to a question and that answer is the one provided by the teacher.

Research consistently shows that by the time children begin their traditional education, most of their critical years of brain development are already over, and also that traditional education stifles creativity and divergent thinking in children.

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