Two Yale students made news recently with their creation of a better version of the school’s course catalogue.
The site didn’t make Washington Post news for being a useful website. It made news for being blocked and shutdown by Yale. Just another example of higher education gatekeepers restricting student innovation.
It’s frustrating that while universities endorse the idea of innovation and creativity, they don’t provide the instruments to effectively create within policy guidelines.
Instead, school systems use their policies to restrict innovation. It’s their glass ceiling to creativity.
Some might argue it’s not a ceiling; that it’s the last roadblock to success. I say no.
Ideas aren’t like cars with a cinderblock pressing down on the gas pedal. Ideas have momentum, but when stopped, have to work at building the momentum again. And when two students get so far with an idea, restarting (to accommodate school policy) is more daunting than building some new idea.
The positive part?
It’s much more difficult to stop a passionate idea fueled by frustration.
Stay Positive & Take The Dyson Approach
