I have long believed the idea that knowledge, and by proxy formal education, constraints your thoughts. One example is physics. We create models and theories based on an accepted series of beliefs.

Few question that nothing in the world is faster than the speed of light. We base many of our theories on this belief. Yet what if there was something faster than light? Do we have enough people working on that?

Well, this video kinda asks that question of our education system. We are all taught to have that one same answer. Diverging from the answer is “wrong”.

That has always been a pet peeve of mine, the fact that there is only ONE way to do things and that there cannot be any variation in thought. In fact, that will be covered in my next blog post.

Instead, I think we should look at the process of coming up with the answer rather than the answer itself. Maybe the process is right and the one answer in the book is wrong, or not the only answer.

The current education system constraints us into searching for the answer that is given, not for the answer that is yet to be found.