That’s easy. Until one can speak the language and know the issues, creativity means exactly nada. Today, one does not need innovation at the drill down level of gravity or two dimensional rendering of three dimensional objects. That ship has sailed.
One needs innovation and creativity at a drill down level on topics that one does not even know exist until a few courses in things like condensed matter physics, high energy plasmas, biomolecular kinetics, etc. are under one’s belt.
Anton, what in tarnation are you talking about?
The greatest minds of Greece and Rome created Western Civilization and w/o degrees. We are mere dwarves who only see as far as we do; because we stand on the massive shoulders of the giants of antiquity. They were self taught geniuses of the first rank. Credentials, such as degrees, are a modernist fad having everything to do w/self esteem and little to do w/knowledge and more critically, wisdom.