June 22, 2007

A Pandora's Box in Singapore

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

The government wants higher education to be more creative, but is it prepared for the likely result?

When students invariably ask Kirpal Singh why they are required to take his course in creative thinking, the Singapore Management University professor tells them it's simple: "It's to undo the damage that 12 years of schooling has done to you!"

Mr. Singh knows that many see the course he helped design for the country's new cutting-edge university as frivolous. Perhaps his

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