Creativity and University Entrance Requirements

In another class I am taking we were discussing creativity and specifically it's decline in today's schools and I wanted to share my ideas about it in relation to an article I read. We watched this Ted video and Ken Robinson discussed how schools (K-12) are set up to fulfill university placement requirements. The article I wrote about below discusses how some university requirements are changing to bring in more humanities and arts majors into the medical field. It made me think about what this means for schools and will there, if ever, be a domino effect that will waiver down to the k-12 levels? Since universities are changing their entrance requirements and asking for students to be more creative and personable will these ever become a priority or at least be given higher importance then they currently hold when compared to other subjects like math and science?  Below are both the video and my overview of the article.



A Top Medical School Revamps Requirements To Lure English Majors
NPR
May 27th, 2015
By: Julie Rovner

Audience: educators, board of education,

Key Points: Medical Schools are changing their requirements in order to bring a wider variety of arts and humanities majors into their school. They believe that having more creative thinkers allows for them to approach problems in the medical field with new solutions. Creative people are looking necessarily at the science of medicine but rather at the solution and individual (patient) behind the problem and makes them overall a well-balanced doctor.

Relevance: Shows the importance of teaching a wide range of subjects rather than just holding science and math as priorities. Proves that in the long run, students who have the ability to not only be scientists but writers, historians, and humanitarians, become well-balanced individuals who can not only solve the issue but treat the person.