Be creative

Yesterday I read an article about the decreasing level of education. Moreover that particular professor said that students nowadays were unable to detach them selfs and create an own opinion. He referred to our generation as the copy/paste generation. Not whit those exact words, but it came down to the point that we merely made compositions of other people’s opinions.

With the abundance of information on the internet and media it is kinda normal you do not want to reinvent the wheel. Although I think this professor has a valid point and we should be more creative. To illustrate this I found a quite interesting and creative website. I can only recommend you to try it!


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