Education, an essential aspect of our society, are being criticized as being to "linear", including rigid systems that discourage exploration and discovery. Because of this, people such as Cecilia Conrad, the vice president for the MacArthur Fellows program at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, fear that creativity is deteriorating. Conrad argues that our society does not supply the time and reward required to foster the growth of creativity. She claims that creativity is looked down upon in our society and it creates a situation where people do not want to risk diverting from the norm. To strengthen her argument, Conrad cites the stiff, rigid American education system.
     I don't think that our education system is largely to blame. From a wider scope, education actually encourages creativity.The K-12 system may not seem to do so, and there is evidence to support a counter-argument; however, it is irrefutable that the purpose of the current system is to engage students in multiple subjects to help them decide which they feel passionate about. The creativity part of education really comes later, during college years. In college, students are much freer to do what they wish and explore different majors. The most important part is that they can engage in research alongside professors, researchers, and scientists in campus facilities, essentially solving problems and coming up with new processes, treatments, and discoveries. Although this may not appear as the classical personification of creativity, it nonetheless requires such.

-Simon Ketema