Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Do schools kill creativity?

     In this video, Ken Robinson talking about creativity. His contention is that creativity is as important in education as literacy and we should treated with the same status. Now, more and more parents teach their children not to make mistakes. If they always make mistakes, parents will scold them, they become frightened being wrong. As the time goes by, children will lost their creativity capacity. It is a terrible thing for the children. When they grow up, they will face the difficult to find a job. At past, if you have a Bachelor degree, you can find a good job, but now you want a good job, you need a higher degree than before. 
      I think the schools kill the creativity. From I went to primary school, we were forced to learn what the schools or parents want us to learn. We need to follow the schools' schedule and we cannot change anything. We studied for taking the test. Until now, there are still have millions of the students study for test, not for themselves. I think the schools really influence our creativity. We just allow to do the normal things instead of the creative things. This makes us lost a lot of fun. People should focus on the education, let children have more chance to do some creative things rather than just read the book and follow the schools' schedule. 

4 comments:

  1. I think school might let children have less time to be more creativity, but actually it is more likely depends on children their own.

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  2. I agree with you. My school made me depress a lot, they always wants me follow on their arrangement, so I don't have enough time to do anything by my mind. That makes me regret a lot....

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  3. A lot of us agree with you. I wonder if there is a way to really let children be more free in public schools. I'm not sure I can imagine exactly what a more creative school system would look like (especially when so many students in California can't even read...). Jana is studying Education; we should ask her.

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