The Scourge of Mediocrity: The Mental Health Pandemic in Campuses
Originally Published: The Galliyo Ka Gazette April'26 “I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.” - John D. Rockefeller Reading Time: 3 Mins Introduction S o said Rockefeller, or so is attributed to him, when forming the General Education Board in 1902. It strips away the pretence that education is about ‘learning’ when its real purpose is to build an “obedient” workforce. It stands as a blueprint for a slaughterhouse of human intelligence & creativity. To substantiate this, we have the study of NASA conducted by Dr George Land. The study found that divergent thinking, which is the ability to generate multiple, unique and spontaneous ideas to a problem, which we refer to as “thinking outside the box”, is found in 98% of 4 to 5-year-old children, and they possess a "genius-level’ of divergent thinking. This falls 30% by age 10, 12% by age 15, and only 2% by adulthood. The study states that the decline in creativity is not a natural part of agi...
