Other factors are also detrimental to right brain development. There are our years of utilitarian education, with its emphasis on mathematics, language, logic and analysis, and its tendency to ignore the arts, music and creativity. There are parental pressures to become doctors and lawyers and scientists rather than poets and artists.
此外，長期以來功利性的教育方式強調數學、語文、邏輯、分析等能力的培養，音樂、美術、創造力的培養較不受重視，而傳統上，父母大都希望子女當律師、醫生、或科學家，而不是詩人、畫家。