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NASA had contacted Dr. George Land and Beth Jarman to develop a highly specialized test that would give them the means to effectively measure the creative potential of NASA’s rocket scientists and engineers.
…but the scientists were left with a few questions:
…The scientists then gave the test to 1,600 children between the ages of 4 and 5. What they found shocked them….
A full 98 percent!
But this is not the real story. The scientists were so astonished that they decided to make it a longitudinal study and tested the children again five years later when they were ten years old.
The result? Only 30 percent…
When the kids were tested at 15 years the figure had dropped to 12 percent!
What about us adults? How many of us are still in contact with our creative genius after years of schooling?
Sadly, only 2 percent.
…the school system, our education, robs us of our creative genius.
— Coert Engels
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My 4 year old pretended she was a hired cleaner yesterday as she helped me clean, she asked me if I had any kids. After telling her about my two, I asked her if she had any of her own. Turns out she has five kids and has been…
