Solving Problems for Real World, Using Design - NYTimes.com

"An important element of the school, Mr. Kelley says, is having students start small, and as they gain what he calls “creative confidence” with each success, they can move toward bigger, seemingly intractable problems. It is not all that different, he said, from teaching someone to play the piano."
 - one of the founders of the D.school aka Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University

My wish: that all schools included the component of thinking and problem-solving