Simon Sinek quote of the day both frustrates and motivates me:
Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.
Source: Sinek’s Start With Why
It frustrates me because our primary and post secondary systems of education focus so significantly on getting the right answer through the passive educational environment of main lecture points, individual competition and standardized testing. “Will this be on the test”, or “will we be tested on this” become the primary questions students learn to ask rather than questions like: “how does this___ really work” or how can we fix or improve this…”
Fortunately, as we can see from Steve Jobs Heres to the Crazy Ones video that there are enough misfits, rebels and trouble makers who are curious enough and believe that they can change the world.
http://youtu.be/8rwsuXHA7RA
