Thomas Alva Edison once wrote that “Our schools are not teaching students to think.” Edison was actually referring to the state of affairs in schools in our early education.

Today, we have ‘schools’ in universities. How many of us can confidently say that this is, at least, happening in universities. Do we actualy encourage thinking, leave alone critical thinking ? This is least sought after in science education where paradigm-laden puzzle solution is the rule. In liberal arts, ie., in Humanities and Social Sciences, it is generally seen as a dangerous trend. Even policy critique is unwelcome in most countries. Social scientists are supposed to be system managers with problem-solving techniques. They are expected to undergo ‘training’ in such tool-kit based management practices. Even innovation is a rarest of the rare ‘management’ experience. Society, consequently, becomes a factory of factories with poor managers, who only know repairs of ‘parts’ without knowing the nuances of the ‘whole.’