Suggestion for the US Government to Promote Nationwide the Addition of New Course in Creation and Invention at All Levels of Schools

       For such a purpose as the title of this article shows it is nary for the government to take charge of compiling and promoting textbook of creation and invention.

       Theoretical basis: The contemporary inventions of computer, car, locomotive, airplane etc. are patented inventions. Invention is so important, why not to   compile a textbook of creation and invention? 

       A course in creation and invention is as important as mathematics, physics, chemistry, languages, etc.

       The carrying out of a policy relevant to the above suggestion will undoubtedly speed up the development of society and science, as well as bring up economic returns.

       The training of millions of inventors begins from the textbook of creation and invention.

       The history of mankind has fully indicated the essentiality of creation and invention.

       Though creation and invention are indispensible, currently no school from elementary school to university has offered a course in creation and invention; only a few schools and experts have compiled he textbook of creation and invention , for example:

1.      Design and Practice of Invention and Innovation (Chinese version)

2.      XIAO Yunlong et alias: Inventions College Guide; Zhongnan University Press

3.      The American educationist McMack proposed teaching of creation and invention to train the student’s ability of creation and invention, after his experiments and research for more than ten years.

4.      . P. Guilford “Creative Talent—Their Nature, Purpose and Culture.”

5.      German Courses in creation and invention.

The German elementary and middle schools encourage the students to create and invent. A Catholic high school in Bavaria offers the selective course in invention for teenagers’ study. That school is also a regular participant in the Nurenberg Invention Exhibition. For instance, in this year the students of that school brought to the exhibition their 13 items of invention including cigarette filter made of algae, tractor combined with mowing machine, and golf serving machine.

        Although many men of insight have done the appreciable work to compile teaching materials of creation and invention, the quantity and popularity of such materials are by-far inadequate. Therefore, it is currently necessary for the government, educational circle, and the whole society to promote and popularize creation and invention, so as to bring creation and invention into full play for the development of human civilization, and advancement of science.

        In the past the famous Chinese educational specialist Mr. TAO Xingzhi said “Everywhere, anytime, and everybody are suitable for creation.”

        Mr. Tao Xongzhi was born in 1891. He studied in the US. Firstly, he entered University of Illinois to study municipal administration, and in the next year he was granted MA Degree of political studies. In 1915 he entered the Education College of Columbia University, so this year is the centennial of Mr. Tao Xingzhi’s going to the US for study.

        The course in creation and invention does not aim at the students’ considerable products of creation and invention at the stage of their study. Instead, it is for the purpose of arousing their interest in and pensive way of creation and invention, to lay a foundation for their future creation and invention. Some students many not be able to invent something, but in their future job the problems they encountered will trigger their inventive thinking. In brief, the course in creation and invention will cultivate millions of inventors to bring about tremendous power to speed up the development of society; if such course is popularized at all levels of schools in the whole country. Such practice is a fundamental and long-running strategy to make a country wealthy.

        It is necessary for the whole society to promote and popularize creation and invention    

        Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka’s invention of early diagnostic test of pancreatic cancer reduced the cost to 1/26667, and raised the efficiency to 400 times, as compared to the previously used old method.

        The promotion and popularization of creation and invention will enable everybody of the society to cultivate themselves a sense of creation and invention, as well as to get to know what has already been invented, and what has not been. The majority of People hold that creation and invention are far beyond their ability. In fact, some inventions are top science and technology; but not all inventions are so. Sometimes, a simple thought is a creation or invention. If a person who has a useful thought is not a technological expert, ne can provide an expert or company with his valuable idea to cooperatively reach success.

        Thomas Edison invented more than 1000 items, though he did not possessed a high academic degree; but his inventions of electric bulb and cinema projector brought up tremendous economic returns.

        The inventions of computer and internet raised the speed of data processing to thousands of times.

        In 2001 the British scholar John Hawkins pointed out in his book , which is entitled “The Creative Economy”, that creative economy of the world produces 22 billion US dollars per day.

        The key to the accelerated development of a modern country is the popularization of education including the education of creation and invention, which will bring up the multi-faceted progress of the whole society.

        Let us kindle the spark of everybody’s wisdom of creation and invention.

David Jin

 New York  1/28/2015