School kills creativity
Schools Kills Creativity
Last year, I came across a video on Ted.com that really grabbed my attention and I thought Id discuss it with you today.
Once a child enters a school their creativity is imprisoned in their own head because schools do not encourage creativity. Schools nowadays are using the same system that the people in the 19th century were using. As Ken Robinson said, they do not understand that all individuals are “born artists and then are educated out of creativity”. In addition, during that time a person wouldn’t be able to make a living if he was an artist, but now it’s possible therefore educators should encourage people to do what they love.
Each person is special in his own way and wants to flourish into something different; not all people want to become doctors or engineers. Every educational system around the world positions the subjects by how important they are, shockingly every one of them rank the Arts last and have Mathematics, Humanities, and Languages at the top. Ken Robinson, an author, speaker, and international advisor on education, states that creativity is a major aspect of learning and he says that “public education is educating students out of their creative capacities”. This is exceedingly true because each student has a unique talent; whether it is dancing, singing, or painting, but the school does not encourage it. As the famous Pablo Picasso one said "Every child is born an artist; the problem is to remain one once they grow up." Schools or education in general, makes it difficult for its pupils to do what they love because they are forced to take subjects that they don’t like in order to help them in the future.
In every system they don’t care about the arts as much as the Math, History, and English because they think it’s not as important. As children grow up, educators focus on teaching subjects like mathematics, and forget about mucic, drawing, singing…this makes the children's creativity fade. The only
Last year, I came across a video on Ted.com that really grabbed my attention and I thought Id discuss it with you today.
Once a child enters a school their creativity is imprisoned in their own head because schools do not encourage creativity. Schools nowadays are using the same system that the people in the 19th century were using. As Ken Robinson said, they do not understand that all individuals are “born artists and then are educated out of creativity”. In addition, during that time a person wouldn’t be able to make a living if he was an artist, but now it’s possible therefore educators should encourage people to do what they love.
Each person is special in his own way and wants to flourish into something different; not all people want to become doctors or engineers. Every educational system around the world positions the subjects by how important they are, shockingly every one of them rank the Arts last and have Mathematics, Humanities, and Languages at the top. Ken Robinson, an author, speaker, and international advisor on education, states that creativity is a major aspect of learning and he says that “public education is educating students out of their creative capacities”. This is exceedingly true because each student has a unique talent; whether it is dancing, singing, or painting, but the school does not encourage it. As the famous Pablo Picasso one said "Every child is born an artist; the problem is to remain one once they grow up." Schools or education in general, makes it difficult for its pupils to do what they love because they are forced to take subjects that they don’t like in order to help them in the future.
In every system they don’t care about the arts as much as the Math, History, and English because they think it’s not as important. As children grow up, educators focus on teaching subjects like mathematics, and forget about mucic, drawing, singing…this makes the children's creativity fade. The only