#3 No More Cookie Cutters

As our society advances, what we perceive as normal also needs to advance. Everything has a "norm" or average. Little changes are made all the time, but if the core of what is considered average is not changed, how are we supposed to develop to our culture to it's full potential? If the National Football League (NFL) never did research on concussions and how to prevent them, they never would have figured out how damaging concussions could be to a person later on in life. If they never did that, more and more lives would have been affected farther down the road. So, if sports can change, why can't we change something even bigger? Like the way we live our lives? We can't go around living our lives based on something that was put into place in the early development of our country. Yes, these guidelines helped us shape the way our country is now, but don't you think that if we take what we know now and apply it to what we had laid before us, we could do something amazing. Take the school systems for example. Why are we still teaching kids from a cookie cutter curriculum? Or teaching kids an absolute answer for everything? If our country could do it once, why couldn't we do it again? I know there have been strides in the past, but they have been mostly political (Equal Opportunities for African Americans and Women). What i'm trying to get at is the way our country thinks as a whole. If kids are taught to ask questions and think outside the box in early grade school, there wouldn't be many yes or no answers to problems in the future. "It depends on...", "Well, what if...", etc. should be common answers when thinking outside of the box, and that isn't too common in this day in age. We all need to ditch the cookie cutter lifestyle and think for ourselves and that starts with teaching to ask questions.