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Nurturing strong minds
The creativity school in Leipzig, Germany, may not be producing Nobel Prize winners, but it is helping to create a smarter society
(...)Are they growing little geniuses here? Long
before the reunification, the Mehlhorns pored
over the biographies of Nobel Laureates
only to discover that they had all been
artistically stimulated as children. From early
on, each of them experienced what Einstein
called the joy of knowing “the revered curiosity
of researchers.”
(...) Walk into Class 2b’s schoolroom
at BIP and the first things you will
notice are three computers surrounded by a
mountain of building blocks and a homemade
terrarium full of grasshoppers and
other insects. A closer look reveals an orange
bowl filled with homemade herb quark (a
type of fresh cheese particular to central
Europe), books of wallpaper samples strewn
about, board games, storybooks left open for
further perusal, a miniature greenhouse with
carnivorous plants and even a bird skeleton.
All bearing witness that it’s just another day
in creative learning. (...)