Do schools kill creativity?


The video was so right in some points. For example, Robinson said that the most important subject is math and English, but also those are the subject that the students hate most. Arts are on the bottom and those are the subject that students enjoy more because they can develop their creativity and imagination, the most important things that Robinson said.

Another thing is the fact that some people think that being a teacher is the worst thing you can do. That is so sad, because our career is taken as an easy one and it is like you could not reach the enough points in the PSU to study architecture, medicine or to become an engineer. People do not think that we are studying pedagogy because we love to teach.

I do not totally agree with Robinson, because I think schools do not kill our creativity at all. In fact, schools help us to have more imagination. Nowadays, Chilean schools evaluate our knowledge and how much we studied. They should evaluate our creativity too and what we can do with that knowledge, how do we take it to the future. Our society asks us to go to school. If we want to get a good job, we need to study. It does not matter how creative we are, we have to get good marks and pass the entire subject to be successful in life.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 11:20 AM

1 Comment to "Do schools kill creativity?"

I disagree only in one point with you Karla. Plenty of
students love arts or music, just for the reason that many of us (I'm not there) enjoy these kind of subjects, just because are the "easy ones" and most of students use them only to increase their averages. I know that other students use these subjects to discover their "profession", but they are not the majority.

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