Toffler's Third Wave to Creativity

Alvin Toffler said long long ago that the Second Wave is gone and the Third wave is here.
In the chapter titled 'Breaking the code',he describes the rules what define and are enforced by the Industrial wave.
A lot of people are slowly waking up to the fact the schooling system throughout the world is geared for producing hierarchical droids trained to not use their full brains.
See this TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson (writer) . While the content is good, the delivery is typically charming,exhilarating British wit.
Slava has taken up cudgels on this behalf in this post here
Kathy Sierra's "how to kick ass" is more of an instruction guide on the matter.

Remember , first thing, the act of doing something is much more important than whether it will be judged right or wrong.

William Gibson said that the future is already here but it's not distributed evenly.