Educational institutions like schools and colleges have a duty to mold students into law abiding citizens and hardworking employees. However, I don’t think that this should be at the cost of their individuality. Individuality helps people stand out in a crowd. Independent thinking fuels their creativity and helps them become good writers, thinkers and artists. Their creative pursuits will bring glory to the nation and give patriots even more reasons to be proud of their country. Children spend a great deal of time in schools. The text books, the teachers and the general atmosphere at school have a major impact on their impressionable minds. If schools don’t encourage creativity and independent thinking, the nation will suffer. Just because someone thinks independently, it doesn’t mean that they can’t become good citizens or good employees. I can’t understand how independent thinking will make a person anti-national or anti-social. Some of the greatest patriots we h...