The positive affective outcomes from interdisciplinary education can positively affect creativity. Sampling, browsing, open-ended, varied topic ,and thematic education are key words for interdisciplinary education. These outcomes are the educational strategies required for increasing creativity in the classroom. This lack of creativity is particularly important considering the compartmentalization of subjects by modern school systems. Not only is creativity stifled by the rewards, but the connection of one subject to another is harmed by the increased pressure on students by reward systems.
Educators often spend classroom time emphasizing facts rather than skills.
An emphasis on a subject without reference to other subjects leaves long taxon systems in the brain which remain unrelated to each other. It should not be surprising that students have difficulty relating one subject to another subject when taxon memory is emphasized in education. Too often teaching methods are mainly a lecture, with follow-up tests that require memorization of data rather than stimulating higher levels of thinking. If knowledge is to reside in long term memory, then it is important to increase the number of pathways by which information can be retrieved. The factory method of education with an emphasis on memorization has been unsuccessful.