http://christopherbuckley.org/blog/why-successful-children-dont-innovate-an-evolutionary-perspective
‘Innovation’ has become something of a mantra, particularly amongst business elites and educators. We are surrounded by the results of innovation (novel technologies). It is regarded (rightly) as one of the distinguishing characteristics of our species: the ability to make new things, and to transmit those new things to others. So it is natural to seek the origins of that innovative tendency amongst children.
The problem is that kids turn out to be hopeless at it…
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