From Lab to Life: Ramanujan – Math Genius |
Statistics show that “around 412 million children aged 17 or younger live in extreme poverty (less than a day) in low-income countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and conflict-affected areas.” This alone is a tragedy and a travesty, for the billionaire-infested West, where $500 m. yachts are the new norm. But there is another hidden calamity.
Lost creativity. As the American HBCU Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ mantra goes: “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” We are wasting creative minds, when schools extinguish creative thinking by their dominant convergent (only one solution) approach. And we are wasting creative minds, when poverty in Third World countries keeps many young people from........