European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Colleges All across the untied states have been affected by Stanford change of curriculum. Great by what does it mean to be an educated person by Barbar Vobejda Washington Post Hen Bill King and his tallow student were engaged in their three year Strug to change the Stanford University curriculum. They knew the bal la lines extended beyond their California Campus. But in was not until  in March 1o alter its Western culture program Oquinn inc inclusion of works related to women minorities a class that the extent or the conflict became Clear we Tell to were taking on More than Stanford King said. I did t realize How much  the act that a single institution s decision 10 Cham a single freshman course could inspire an intense National debate inducting a controversial speech on Campus by education Secretary William j. Bennell reflects the current heightened interest in an age ale exercise defining what in Means to be an educate person. That question is swirling vigorously across College campuses in the United slates emerging in the form curricular Reform and soul searching Over whether an institution should teach what it designates As a Core tradition in the humanities. The University of Maryland for example voted i june to prescribe More specifically the Range of Cour undergraduates must Lake an attempt to guarantee Broad Liberal arts education but also expertise in one discipline. Passion for creativity by John Lacy Hartford Nourani firmly believe that i m not inherently More creative than anybody  says Robert , an i Vendor from Harl Tord Conn who hold 130 u s. Parents and 300 foreign patents. I Ihrk children Are born with a lot of creativity. And some gel More of in taken away than  he says it s much less a matter of genetics than in is How much we encourage and develop. Or How much we leave How much to Don t  Gundlach has More time to talk about creativity since Xerox corp. His employer since 19s2. Decided two years ago to Reward his inventiveness they offered me a big management position Complete Wilh the big office and a  he says i Lold them i did l want a promotion or a Rug. I wanted to  he got a special Laboratory and a learn of seven handpicked researchers. In an interview. Gundlach. 61, said most weeks he works five or six Days in the exploratory innovations team research Laboratory in East Rochester n.y., because it s so much Lun and there s so much to be  sometimes he Levels like a Workaholic but he docs believe in taking vacations. His free time passion in summer is wind surfing in a incr it s skiing. Exploring is a favorite term he uses in discussing creativity. I be seen so Many parents come Down hard on kids for exploring Gundlach says. For example parents sometimes punish children severely when they pull things off shelves in stores. Lei them know which situations Are appropriate to explore and which Aren 1," he says. Children should have creative Loys. Says Gundlach. Recalling the Lime his children had More fun playing Wilh an comply Box than the new Loy that came in it. It creativity is so Ovidene if you leave room for imagination he says. The process of inventing something can taks Many strange twists As Wilh the birth of the machine thai led to the Success of Xerox. Gundlach says. Choler Caisson the inventor of xer Graphy had been frustrated by a need for Many copies of documents in the new York Patent office whore he worked. So much time was ids i in retyping papers and proofreading them that he set Oul to develop another Way. In the mid-1940s, he succeeded in making a copying machine. Once he invented in and proved Hal in worked he approached so of the major business equipment companies in America Gundlach says. He met Wilh whal he Laler called an enthusiastic Lack of interest. So it in t True Iho world will beat a path to your door the Pursuit of Ida Ylidia Wasowicz United press International t Isaac Newton was rated As a Workaholic. He next great scientific breakthrough Walt Likely be made by an introverted confident individual who rarely attends Church and is a tre Quelly criticized Workaholic a psychologist predicts. Those characteristics typify some of the world s most Brilliant minds from Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin to Albert Einstein said Dean Keith Simon Lon a psychology professor at University of California. Davis. Simon Lon Analysed the lives of Moro than 2,000 scientists focusing on common trails in intelligence education family background personality and product Lively. Perhaps the most important Quality shared by the greatest scientists is the willingness to produce a tremendous amount of work often on seemingly Page 14 the stabs and stripes trivial or useless projects Wal Hotnit Lear cd failure said Simonton who explains his theory in a Book. Scientific Genius a psychology of science the greatest misconception about renowned scientists is that they Are cautious methodical individuals showered Wilh Success and acclaim. In fact. Simon Lon said science s Grea Lesl figures have been prolific risk takers pursuing ideas that appear illogical or counter to prevailing  by taking directions shunned by the mainstream and publishing in abundance the scientists increase their Odds of making discoveries Hal profoundly Al feel the Way people live and think he said in an interview. At Iho same time they increase the likelihood of failure and indeed history s greatest scientists knew a great Many  Einstein published nearly 250 papers during his Lite but a significant number o them were ignored or even tuesday s