Paulo Freire, James Dewey and Agostinho da Silva are unanimous in arguing that teaching and learning are being perverted by institutional partisan bias, which misunderstand the philosophical backbone of the whole educational project. Education has to contribute to the happiness of humankind, as was voiced by the Enlightenment movement and written in the Preamble of the Pittsburgh Declaration of Independence of 1776, in the now called United States of North America. Today’s Assessment of educational results, refers to three spheres of action: students, professionals, and policy. (i) Student’s Learning Assessment, e.g. the Pisa Report; Erasmus experience (ESCE-IPS 1990’); Blended Learning and Hybrid education (TGI ESTS-IPS, 1990’); Technical Writers intensive courses (APCOMTEC, 2009); MOOCs (IPS, 2000’); Maker Spaces (Maquijig, 2000’). (ii) Academia and Staff Assessment, e.g. Professional Development Plan; Curriculum and Materials Development. (iii) Educational Policy Assessment, e.g. the social impact of public policy. No matter the area of educational intervention, the same reasoning is applied. Educational ecosystems are politically programmed to manage and control, that is, to regulate and condition creativity. However, a society that does not promote and nurture creativity, and, worse, a society that actively punishes and rejects creativity, is bound to fail. No scientific or technical development may exist, persist or be maintained, i.e. survive, without active and pro-active public and private interventions on both sides of the teaching-learning duo. If and when education fails, everything else is bound to fail, because education represents the backbone of science and technology, which is the fundamental institutional structure of present contemporary societies. The purpose of the present text, with its hindsight’s and call for explorative and open debate, is to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on the urgent and mandatory change in educational policy worldwide, locally and globally. Creativity needs to be reinvented. And, more importantly, this reinvention process has to be assessed in an effective and consequential manner.

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