Creative Education
2011. Vol.2, No.4, 341-345
Copyright © 2011 SciRes. DOI:10.4236/ce.2011.24048
Science Education of the New Millennium: Mentorship
Arts for Creative Lives
Akbar Nikkhah
Department of Animal Sciences, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran.
Received July 20th, 2011; revised August 24th, 2011; accepted September 1st, 2011.
Science as an ultimate essence encircles theoretical and applied findings and discoveries that can only contribute
to forming a trivial core. The most crucial are, however, insightful moral surroundings. The upper tree of science
glorified with blooming branches of knowledge is predicted to undergo progressive declines in the strength of its
education foundations unless the lower tree receives most-deserving mentorship contemplations. Mentoring
rather than teaching of science will be a frontier for quality creative lives. Postmodern Mentors will create and
designate definitive shapes from discoveries and findings to grant human life with ongoing peace and ultimate
satisfaction. Mentors are expected to welcome and manage challenges from mentees. Challenges play crucial
roles in granting mentees with creative pathways of scientific development. Science education policies are to
pursue arts as a model to reach and maintain harmony. Finest harmonies are accomplished by assimilating a
multitude of creative sciences as is rousing a piece of music by composing manifold melodies. Human brain
communicates with arts in ways that determine various future choices of life. Artistic science education requires
creative educators who can perceive, perform and analyze arts. Governments are increasingly responsible for
making new policies that will allow creative public education and refined education programs. Governments
should foster creative education policies at governors, educators, and learners levels. In the post-modern time,
mentors and trainers themselves require frequent timely education to remain most up-to-date and creatively
functional. Constant education of educators faces more practical challenges than education of learners. Effectual
education of governments and policy makers on “science education policies” will be a turning point in enabling
continual improvements in global science and creative life qualities. Sciences educated artistically will make and
shape most yielding policies in creative science education of the new resourceful millennium.
Keywords: Science, Education, Mentorship, Arts, Creative Life, New Millennium
Introduction
The significance of creative science education to optimizing
human life is increasing as science expands (Alberts, 2009a,
2009b; Nikkhah, 2011a, 2011b, 2011c). Postmodern life quality
depends on the creative science education quality greater than
can be imagined mainly because the demand for all to be more
sim ila rly e ducated increases with time (Nikkhah, 2011b, 2011c).
These high-light the most fundamental roles of “education” in
enabling optimum human uses of nature. Humans are exposed
to a variety of environments whose utilization efficiency is
orchestrated and obliged by creative education systems quali-
ties. As such, policy-making in creative science education is
key to timely human developments. More important than feed-
ing the rising world population is their adequate quality creative
education. Feeding guts will only be a preliminary concern in
the crucial face of nourishing creative brains and social intelli-
gence in the new millennium. Effective policy-making in sci-
ence education for any society relies on its legislators’ and sci-
entists’ visions and prospectus insights. In support of the in-
cremental importance of adequate investments in creative sci-
ence education (Nikkhah, 2011c), for instance, Steven Weinberg,
the 1979 physics nobelist, recently urged to help shift away the
economy balance from private consumer goods to education
and scientific research (Weinberg, 2011). Special care must be
dedicated to both pure and applied sciences. One without the
other will not make a long-term sense in optimizing life quali-
ties. Advancements in pure sciences will fuel expansion of
applied sciences that will allow progressive development of
new integrative theories. The circular dependence will maintain
sufficient dynamics in creative science education for consistent
improvements in life quality.
Science has embodied inexpressible progress especially since
the agricultural revolution. A following wave of science glori-
fication has occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries involving
the birth and growth of modern physics and quantum mechan-
ics. These accomplishments have totally transformed human
life and enabled more efficient utilization of natural resources
and time. However, such advancements in tangible science and
technologies have often remained uncoupled from applications
and implications that should reflect in adequately satisfied and
moral quality lives worldwide. Therefore, the primary objective
is to address and describe postmodern creative science and life
quality interrelationships. An additional objective is to propose
global programs that will help in timely achievements of opti-
mal real-life science goals. Moreover, dynamic and artistic
policy-making in creative science education of the new millen-
nium will be described. Creative science education will be de-
lineated in an “arts” context to emphasize artistic sciences to be
the postmodern scientific arts. Frontiers in the global science of
creative science education will be discussed. It will be reasoned
how creative science education can only be an art to remain
advantageous to the betterment of postmodern creative lives.
Creative Science of Science Education: An
Evolving Global Supremacy
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“creative education” becomes an increasingly important entity
in human life. Major concerns are not limited to how efficiently
conduct animal agriculture to safely and securely feed the rising
populations. A key concern is how effectively to educate such
populations to be able to most efficiently utilize science and
technology driven natural and synthetic resources. Creative
education is not limited to original young learners and students.
The governors, administrators and educators require constant
and continual education more than before and more practical
than others. In a nut shell, it is only with most applied educa-
tion of concepts to policy-makers and governors that science
and technology can persist to significantly improve life world-
wid e. The importance of “creative science education” and “men-
torship arts” have recently been subjects of global importance
for timely improvements in life quality (Alberts, 2009; Nikkhah,
2011a).
Mentorship Principles and Challenges
It is compelling to consider “education” as a most realistic
reason for humans to find meanings in life. The continuing
emphasis on creative science education supports the considera-
tion (Alberts, 2008, 2009a, 2009b, 2009c). Summing up centu-
ries of contemplation in science and most crucially its educa-
tion, knowledge must synthetically be transformed into insights
to advance progressively. This transformation enhances in in-
fluence as knowledge grows deeper. For this transformation to
occur persistently, creative education must focus on sufficiently
simple but sophisticated inter-group discussions from the very
beginning in elementary schools. There has always been a be-
lief that more junior students are too young for certain life
lessens rece ive d by t he more senior peers. Such erroneous prac-
tices considerably delay students’ consciousness in grasping
their powerful thought nature and benefiting the community in
multiple aspects. Science educators must gain distinction in
persuading professional confrontational and provoking opinion
and view exchange among students and trainees. Prevailing
silence on students’ part and one-way teaching should be dis-
couraged and minimized. Such approaches will allow mentees
to envision much earlier what educators or mentors have real-
ized later in life, thus offering mentees enormous potential to
visualize beyond mentors’ images.
By science definition, mentors are to replace pure instructors,
and to vastly welcome and manage challenges from mentees.
Challenges play crucial roles in introducing mentees with inte-
grated pathways of creative scientific development. The result-
ing pictures will be eagerly prone to future revisions and elabo-
rations as mentees themselves step into such pathways. This
systematic and circular education will strengthen science roots
in mentees’ minds and will uphold a sturdy body for creative
science.
Global Creative Education Models
The proposed feature simply resembles a tree with its roots,
base, major and minor branches, leaves, and fruits the foremost.
That is a global perception for creative science without which
all other theoretical and experimental accomplishments will not
gain lasting power and productivity. The upper tree of science
glorified with blooming branches of knowledge is predicted to
undergo progressive declines in the strength of its education
foundations unless the lower tree receives most-deserving
mentorship contemplations. What humans have achieved and
built thus far, and particularly over the last 4 centuries, now we
begin to realize that concern mostly the upper tree. With un-
covering and discovering more quantitative and qualitative
science, the lower tree must be fortified for more blooming and
productive upcoming generations. The lower tree is essentially
concerned with moral commitments to training more creative
upcoming mentors/scientists than those of past and present
times. This is an obligation for creating an integrated shape for
global science that will maintain its evolving trend.
Morality and Science: Simplification of an
Elusive Concept
Although known and discussed for centuries, morality is an
elusive concept that has rarely, if at all, been simply defined in
very few global terms. Morality should essentially be inces-
santly refined and interpreted, such that science can capaciously
realize its prevailing role in improving man’s life. With the
imaginable tree of creative science growing as a circle, for in-
stance, theoretical and applied findings and discoveries can
only contribute to its core or the insignificant central point.
What shape morality are the surroundings of the core or the
essentialities maintaining an integrated circular shape. Without
such dense environs, the circle would loose its essence and
integrity, becoming a straight line. However, even with the
central hub being even as infinitesimal as an invisible point, the
circle will still be a circle. These concepts implement a phe-
nomenon that creative science would be entirely meaningless
without its moral elements, even if filled with expanded ex-
perimental novelties.
Structuring Postmodern Science Education
Creative education for scientists and mentors in the new mil-
lennium on must accordingly incorporate describing moral res-
ponsibilities alongside technical and imaginary skills. Influen-
tial thought authorities of the 20th century (e.g., Albert Einstein)
had exemplified that how imagination outshine knowledge.
Now, we tend to globally comprehend that while is knowledge
always relatively uncovered, imagination is merely the begin-
ning to furthering knowledge. Thus, to form and sustain a dense
and rigid shape that progressively improves man's life, know-
ledge and imagination must be complemented with harmoniz-
ing approaches. Such much needed perceptions become an
obligation as the growing knowledge gives rise to novel ques-
tions and challenges.
Science pictured as an integrated circle grants a prospect to
envision where we are and where we must or must not end up.
Maintaining a definitive shape for science in any major before
and while enriching central cores with experimental novelties in
minds and laboratories is crucial to improving man’s fulfill-
ment of time. It is only with such a representation that creative
science can continue to impress upon us constructively enough
to deserve investing and dedicating time, finance, and brain
work.
Science and Arts
The significance of creative science education to optimizing
human life is increasing as science expands (Alberts, 2009a,
2009b; Nikkhah, 2011a, 2011b, 2011c). Postmodern life quality
depends on creative science education qualities greater than can

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be imagined mainly because the demand for all to be more
similarly educated increases with time (Nikkhah, 2011b, 2011c).
These highlight the most fundamental roles of “creative educa-
tion” in enabling optimum human uses of nature. Humans are
exposed to a variety of environments whose utilization effi-
ciency is orchestrated and obliged by education systems quali-
ties. As such, policy-making in creative science education is
key to timely human developments. Science education will be
increasingly regarded as a global art.
The arts are a vast subdivision of culture, made of numerous
creative endeavors and disciplines. The “arts” is a more-inclu-
sive expression than “art”, which usually refers to visual arts.
The arts encompass visual arts, literary arts, and the performing
arts including music, theatre, dance and film, among others. By
global definition, the “arts” is described as imaginative, crea-
tive, and non-science senses and data that may be studied aca-
demically. Art is born when an artist creates a stunning and
inspiring object, sense, science, or experience that is considered
to have artistic merits for humans. The “art” is suggested as the
process that creates an artwork. The artwork or the piece of art
is analyzed and scored by experts or is most practically appre-
ciated, assimilated, and enjoyed by spectators, viewers and
listeners. Art is a global activity that hosts several disciplines,
including Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, Visual Arts, Decorative Arts,
Applied Arts, Design, Crafts, Performing Arts, and others. Arts
are the means that humans utilize to communicate with their
surrounding nature and environment more insightfully. This
suggests that pursuing arts makes all life affairs more efficient,
more understandable, and thus more pleasurable. Therefore, an
ultimate pathway to facilitate and improve “creative science
education” is through contemplating arts and their assimilation
with science.
Science and Arts Integrations into Creative
Public Education
It is increasingly suggested that human brain systems (e.g.,
rbitofrontal cortex and the nucleus accumbens) communicate
with arts in ways that can determine various future choices of
life (Berns et al., 2009; Berns & Moore, 2011). Artistic sci-
ence education requires educators who can perceive, perform
and analyze arts. Arts are performed with sophisticated delica-
cies and harmonies. Artists ought to acquire such skills to im-
press upon others while performing. That requires artists to live
with their arts as they creatively practice and perform. Arts are
thus become part of artists’ brain organization without which
all life affairs would be curtailed and imperfect. This vision
suggests that human brain is kinetically always deficient unless
complemented by arts. Scientists are considered analytical hu-
mans who expectedly contemplate more than many. Thus, sci-
entists’ brains are prone to greater degrees of disorganization.
Accordingly, arts come to play more important roles in orga-
nizing scientists’ minds. Art is highly integrated with science as
is art training with science education. Creative science educa-
tion must be inspired by professional arts training. Interactions
among arts and science mentors will be highly encouraged. Arts
performers are often seen to have proficiency in more than one
field. Formatted with arts, human learning capacity increases.
Should science be practiced as an art, science mentors will
more efficiently direct mentees towards a variety of science
fields. Without artistic mentoring, mentees will encounter nu-
merous difficulties in learning a given science. With artistic
mentorship, a multitude of sciences may be pursued enthusias-
tically.
Arts and science become increasingly interrelated as science
expands. Pursuing one without another is virtually impossible.
Arts are prime while science is constantly incomplete. Science
depends on arts far greater than arts on science, suggesting that
arts are ahead of and lead science. The state-of-arts science
education is hence led by arts. Music is a paramount and ra-
tional art example. Orchestrating a harmonious piece of music
is comparable to mentoring creative science education. Finest
harmonies could be secured by educating a multitude of sci-
ences as is rousing a piece of music by composing manifold
melodies. Sciences educated artistically will generate mentors
that are cognizant of arts roles in the quality new millennium’s
science education.
Ease and pleasure in mentoring science is granted with mul-
tiple-science training. Basic sciences of mainly physics and
chemistry conceptually fit into applied sciences such as nutria-
tion, medicine, and engineering. Advocating sciences apart in
“creative science education” will not be a goal. True and capa-
ble artists (e.g., musicians) often secure proficiency in addi-
tional arts besides their own principal art. Science will yet to
learn much from arts. Science transformation into arts can op-
timize science education. Science education policies should
pursue arts as a model to reach and maintain harmony. A first
step is to develop and provide supplementary courses in arts for
science mentees and mentors. Such courses will be mandatory
and prepare mentees’ minds for more orchestrated science tr-
aining. This is similar to a music orchestra when a back-ground
piece is played to shift the audience’s mind into the psycho-
logical atmosphere within which mind, psych and body will
experience relaxation. Accordingly, before mentors can most
effectively communicate science with mentess, a mind bridge
between them should be developed through which thoughts will
be exchanged more passionately and productively. Arts will
help to build sturdy and long-lasting mind bridges in creative
science education. Arts such as music, painting, choreography,
theatre, sculpture, poetry, architecture, photography, and com-
ics among others will help to more transparently connect men-
tors to mentees. The connection will highly facilitate science
education and insight formation. Science creates knowledge
and knowledge fuels insights to further science. These are in-
terconnected with arts.
Policy-Making Obligations of Science Education
Effective government education has received negligible
global science and research attention. As a matter of science
fact, insufficient education across governmental and adminis-
trative levels contributes greatly to deficiencies in most deserv-
ing and visionary time and financial investments in science and
technology creation, education and their public utilization. As-
signing science advisors within governments and administra-
tions is only a single minor factor, and thus, is highly inade-
quate in creating an efficient global science structure. Gover-
nors and administrators are to receive most applied education
on theories of science methodological impacts on life better-
ment. Specialized educators are to frequently update governors
and policy-makers with most recent fundamental science dis-
coveries. The main aim of such governmental education is not
only to advance governors’ knowledge of world science but is
more pragmatically to highlight the significance of granting
most deserving thought and applied credits to “creative science
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in a given science field, but the key is to unite them into a uni-
fied global structure that is increasingly appreciative of a life
princi- ple. The principle that governments are as important as
scien- tists (if not more important) in making and refining sci-
ence policies that optimally contribute to continual improve-
ments in life quality.
Science Educators Education
Science education resembles a circle that requires revisiting
all its directions to be sustained fruitfully. Such a dynamic na-
ture will enable science education to find multiple ways out
towards its accomplishments. It is often observed that science
educators are not directed into continual educational programs.
Systematic education does not end once one becomes an edu-
cator. The ongoing education of educators does not aim to
merely keep them up-to-date in science or to motivate net-
working for improved science dissemination. A key goal is to
revisit and refresh education principles and highlight the neces-
sity of developing circular education with a delic ate natu re. One
will be as much delicate in educating learners as being pro-
gresssively educated by others. Governments are increasingly
becoming responsible in fostering “educator education”. Thus,
maintaining creative education delicacies requires periodical
education of the principal educators.
Societal Interrelations of Science Education
A visionary triangular structure for dynamic science educa-
tion will sustain a constantly-improving nature for science-life
interactions. This structure involves 1) governors and adminis-
trators, 2) principal educators, and 3) learners. The governors
include ministers and all related officials and administrative
professionals. The educators include science and technology
mentors and trainers in schools, colleges, universities, Indus-
tries, and private and semi-private institutes. The learners, by
definition, are those enrolled in different academic and non-
academic institutions to obtain degrees, expertise and excel-
lence in global fields of science and technology. With inade-
quate resources and time investment in each of these angles,
especially the top government angle, tremendous practical
shortcomings in linking science to human life will occur. Fun-
damental governmental education and insight dissemination are
an obligation for governments and related sectors to become
profoundly aware and updated of such a unified structure. The
interrelationship is to be fostered in various governmental lev-
els in a global manner. The unavoidable interconnection will be
incorporated into mandatory course materials in schools, uni-
versities and industrial institutes. Emphasis will be made that
creative science education requires governors and administra-
tors to network closely and frequently with science educators
and policy-makers. Governors will be quantitatively educated
on estimates of science links to quality human life. These will
ease designing and specifying most deserving budgets for sci-
ence and non-science administrations. With such a configure-
tion, any learner will be a more insightful element either as
educator, administrator, or governor. Consequently, policy-
making in science will be productive in overcoming challenges
more timely and harmonically.
Science Roles in Postmodern Life Betterment
Science and its progress should ultimately and significantly
contribute to easing life affairs and creating adequate satisfac-
tion for all humans (Nikkhah, 2011a). These are beyond im-
proving life energy efficiency. More intense daily activities and
busier schedules are not undesirable if pursued within programs
that result in such moral life accomplishments. Greater activity
for greater success in social and financial states should not in-
terfere with personal and communal capacities to create at-
mospheres that provide all with peace of mind and physics.
Under such considerations, more active daily life will despite
having greater workload for body matter will cause more re-
laxed minds and psyches. It is not a main aim of this paper to
discuss how different sports, especially mind exercise proce-
dures, help to improve body and mind health. Instead, it is de-
lineated how more effective and transformed perspectives into
global science can entirely improve conceptual expectations
from science on life quality. Science in different fields gener-
ates findings, discoveries and perspectives that enhance man’s
understanding of life mechanisms (Alberts, 2009). In addition,
science in general and regardless of fields should yield path-
ways that allow humans to most efficiently utilize such new
findings and discoveries. These pathways have received virtu-
ally no or little attention in global science and technology.
Without optimal pathways to carry the discoveries through,
science will contribute negligible to human life quality no mat-
ter how advanced technologies are resulted and accessible. The
essentiality of having such science visions increases with time
and as findings and innovations escalate. As such, in a more
modernized environment human life will be more prone to
possible disadvantages of a mismanaged and misperceived
science. These highlight the significance of educating upcom-
ing generations a science that is beyond classes, laboratories,
and libraries.
Science is a discernible delineation of knowns among un-
knowns. Science is not an obscure territory of knowledge. It is
the entirety of such delineations that should be educated. Kn-
owledge and insight will advance, but the optimal harmony of
science, no matter how much exposed or sophisticated, will
persist. Science has mostly been perceived as an unlimited field
of advancement without creating frontier directions and goals.
Such an ambiguity will cause science and the world to encoun-
ter progressive life dissatisfaction. Definitive paths are pro-
posed that will bestow science sufficiently empowered authori-
ties to optimize economics and global human relations.
Frontiers in Global Science Education
Science in the postmodern era will no longer be judged based
on applied and theoretical research accomplishments. The abil-
ity and capacity to retain an evolving trend in science will de-
pend on the creation of scientists who are capable of creating
more qualified and more creative than own. Those whose qual-
ity does not lie in only distinguished teaching and research.
Those whose qualifications are encompassed with a distinction
in development and education of pathways in which science is
mentored rather than taught. Mentorship is an indefinite art
while teaching is a defined job. Teaching is passing knowledge
on to others while mentoring is fostering insights exchange.
Teaching educates learning while mentorship develops skills to
educate others. Teaching gives rise to students who graduate
while mentorship cr eates mentees who remain students so long
as they live. Teaching demands returning teachers materials
taught while mentoring lead mentees to establish new concepts.
Teaching is mostly a one-way communication while mentor-

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ship is an environment for thought exchanges. Teaching does
not bear questioning teachers while mentoring welcomes chal-
lenges from mentees. Challenges are where mentees practice
and perceive true education. Teaching is concerned with routine
fixed hours while mentoring is a life-time contemplation. Te-
achers are employed by science while mentors employ science.
Teaching motivates learning while mentoring generates men-
tors who can sustain an ever-improving pathway. Teachers
teach science while mentors generate those who can produce
science. Teaching is a task while mentorship is a commitment.
Teaching’s most significant outcomes are research findings and
discoveries while mentoring’s most important products are
mentors who produce scientists capable of discovering. Teach-
ing furthers knowledge while mentoring discovers and prepares
scientists who can educate others to create insights. Knowledge
is an endpoint while insight is a beginning to innovate and cre-
ate more knowledge. Teaching raises science while mentoring
creates pathways to advance science. Teaching is a straight line
while mentoring is definitively shaped to form—for instance—
a circle that consists of a central point (i.e., findings and discov-
eries) and the surroundings (i.e., science morality). Teaching
merely adds to the literature while mentoring integrates know-
ledge into quality life strategies. As such, teaching complicates
science while mentoring simplifies life. Responsible mentoring
rather than teaching of science will be a frontier for quality
postmodern lives. Postmodern mentors will be cognizant of the
science entirety, and will create and designate definitive shapes
from discoveries and findings. These shapes will grant human
life with ongoing peace and ultimate satisfa ction.
Conclusions and Implications
Postmodern science will not be judged merely based on ap-
plied and theoretical research findings. The ability and capacity
to retain an evolving trend in science accomplishments will
depend on the creation of creative scientists who are capable of
creating more qualified than own. Creative mentoring rather
than teaching of science will be a leading edge for quality
postmodern lives. Constant education of educators faces more
challenges than education of learners. It is only with an inte-
grated structure of governors, policy-makers and scientists that
science will create and empower deserving public education.
Effectual governmental education of “science education delica-
cies” will be a turning point in making progressive improve-
ment in creative life quality worldwide. Education is a science
in ways that science is an art. Arts are the means whereby hu-
mans communicate with the nature and the environment. Pur-
suing arts will make life affairs more efficient, more under-
standable, and thus more pleasurable. Arts will help to build
inspiring irreplaceable links between mentees and mentors.
Thus, creative public science education should be performed as
arts to contribute to ongoing quality life betterment. Science
does possess a rigid form, with theoretical and applied findings
and discoveries only contributing to forming its trivial core.
Crucially, the most vital elements are insightful moral sur-
roundings. Making the most fruitful education policies necessi-
tates conceptual appreciation of the moral constituents of sci-
ence mainly concerned with mentorship commitments. Sci-
ences educated artistically will enable making and shaping most
yielding policies in the creative science education of the new
resourceful millennium.
Acknowledgements
The author is grateful to nature and environment for inspiring
thoughts of programming and optimizing science education po-
licies in the third millennium.
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