The captive mind and creative development.

This article focuses on the empirical manifestations of a captive mind and its effect on the creative development of a human being in his social interactions. A captive mind has the following features. It is the product of higher institutions of learning whose way of thinking is dominated by Western thought in an imitative and uncritical manner. A captive mind is uncreative and incapable of raising original problems. The captive mind is found in all fields of knowledge like social sciences and humanities. At the undergraduate, and even at more advanced levels, the phenomenon of the captive mind is real and pervasive. They do not functional properly in the society. It bars a person to be innovative in his thinking. Last but not the least, many creative personalities and inventors were not university teachers.