Gowin: Polish schools need to teach creative thinking

Minister of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin said that Polish schools teach schematic thinking and his department wants to break away from it by replacing imitation with innovation. According to Gowin, primary and higher education in Poland has, in the last couple of years, been seen as two separate processes. It will take a few months of intensive work by groups of experts to fill this gap, the minister said. Nonetheless, Gowin highlighted that he has already taken the first steps to carry out interministerial cooperation. Along with Minister of Digitization Anna Streżyńska, he wants to pursue a plan of connecting all schools to broadband internet and introducing programming classes for first graders.