Out-of-the-box approaches mould innovative students

I REFER to Muhamad Amiral Sadikin Md Afendi’s letter “Moulding innovative mindsets” (The Star, Sept 3).

Israel’s teaching skills for innovation may be instructive, the country being very successful in this domain. And what Israel has done is a paradox: Although Israeli children lag behind in standardised tests, coming in at the bottom 40% in Maths and Science in the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa), the country is No. 2 in innovation as reported in the World Economic Forum Competitiveness Report 2014.