Teaching creativity

[Lamplighter]

The trouble is that students are not medical or engineering students when they get to college... they are (only) high school graduates.
Some have ideas about what they may want to do, but those ideas are often immature and/or unrealistic
and/or coming perhaps from pressure or tradition of their parents, etc. etc...

Our family took the positions that undergraduate college was a place and time
to explore the world outside of the family, and not just a job-training program,
even if they wanted to eventually go into medicine or other graduate training.
The same can be said for colleges known for engineering or agriculture or business management or whatever.

A student can justify job training almost anywhere along the pathway to adulthood,
but it turns out to be very difficult after using the college years for job training to then try to go back to college
to pick up courses missed in history or literature or philosophy or art or music or whatever.

I believe that after a some years of actual employment in any field, people start looking for other areas of self-fulfillment, and
if they have not ever explored the fine arts or creative pathways
they are at a loss compared with those who have explored and tested their breadth of own interests.
It's those other interests that often can lead to what I perceive as contentment.