"The lesson" at IIT, reflections from another university

To continue with what I had written last week about the only lesson that one learns at IIT, it seems some of the big universities also teach the same lesson to their students. Here is an example from Standford University:
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0511/feature_creativity.shtml

I think we should have a similar formal course at IIT - may be a compulsory HSS. It would make the lesson more clear rather than left on luck to learn it