Schools Kill Creativity? Yes they do.

Yes, they definitely do. This isn’t the first time I’ve watched this TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson. I’d like to start off by saying that my favorite quote from the entire talk is “creativity is as important in education as literacy.” It’s my favorite quote from the entire talk because to some this is probably an exaggerated statement. To some this is absurd that one is in need to have imaginative attributes equally as much as they need to understand basics of the English language. Being a teacher has become a job frowned upon, and an alternative for a lot of people who can’t find jobs (as though its an alternative). The school systems bear no room for creativity. The strict regulations and irrelevant content we take completely blow off our creative contents. Colleges judge a students intelligence by their mathematical and grammar abilities.

I’ve read a lot about how we as children tend to ask hundreds of brilliant questions per day where our minds are blown out of proportion with curiosity. But as we grow up, this starts to decrease more and more. Our apathy and unconcern towards the things around us come to a halt, and questions like “how is it made?  where did it come from?”  we care less to know. And that’s where I’d completely like to blame the school system for this.

I believe it’s also been created to be this way. I’d like to think people that enforce the system understand this perfectly yet completely disregard it nevertheless. I would like to think that the system has been created purposefully to kill creativity. Creative people breed brilliant results, they question the status quo, and procreate controversy as they grow. Not something anyone in power would ever want because nobody wants a divergent. One of my favorite movies, Divergent, really presents this phenomena and exposes the ways in which the government would try to dominate people’s mentalities.It further proves that curiosity and creativity could be threatening and conforming to the status quo is encouraged. This has been indirectly portrayed through several other characters and movies and they’ve all undergone similar processes for being creative.

Consequently, every school system encourages nothing but industrialism where we’re all taught the same set of mediocre subjects, and I agree that its exceedingly unsuitable. Schools don’t prepare us for real life properly let alone the future, and its irritating.

It’s vital to realize that we, as young adults, hold the power to change the future and its our responsibility to enforce the principles we strongly believe in today in order to provide for our children what we weren’t able to receive.