Here are some Things I Learned from Lorne Michaels: (1) Producing is about discouraging creativity.
The random nature of this process discourages creativity; in particular, any idea that can be misinterpreted is a liability.
Being a collectivist country with high uncertainty avoidance, however, the Turkish national culture does not seem to emphasize self-reliance, autonomy, self-sufficiency, diversity or personal initiative, thus discouraging creativity and innovativeness in young people.
He listed the challenges the region faces as: an unclear definition of MIL (depending on how the concept is translated), an education system that relies on knowledge injection, a system that discourages creativity, and, a lack of critical thinking.
Funding and evaluation metrics: Current metrics of evaluation, which are based on the number and impact factor of publications, have resulted in a culture of hyper-competitiveness which discourages creativity, co-operation, risk-taking and original thinking.
But the fiercest opponents of testing, such as historian Diane Ravitch and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, say the requirement's deleterious effects are far worse: They unfairly penalize poor students; they reduce children to the sum of a single score; and they discourage teacher creativity.
The current system, he argues, "discourages creativity and innovation (at least in the arts) by turning our creative work into 'property' to be protected, forever, if possible".
Some employees contend that the regimented work environment discourages creativity.
Much of the problem, education experts say, is that France's centralized primary school curriculum is overly focused on rote learning that discourages creativity and critical thinking.
