Creativity and Inventiveness

Schools in today's society do not praise inventiveness and creativity as much as they should. Schools are becoming more uniform in their education and focusing only on the knowledge and expression of the brain. Standardized testing can not show the intelligence of a child who expresses himself or herself through movement.

Arts and other forms of expressions are no longer praised in the modern school. Arts, music and theater and among the first activities lost during school budget cuts. How many top musicians are we losing with these cuts? How many kids no longer have an outlet from their everyday life? These activities are ones where kids can learn to make mistakes and how to fix them. Kids are becoming more terrified of making mistakes in their schooling because it is frowned upon. They are expected to always have the right answer. Critical thinking should be praised more than the correct answer because it allows creativity. In the video it said that teachers are supposed to be preparing the incoming kindergarten class for the year 2065 when they do not even know what the world will be like in five years. Degrees from college mean less than they did in the past. The educational system is under inflation and its hurting the students. Creativity is one thing that each child develops for themselves and it can lead to original ideas that will help them in their future. Because more kids are scared of being wrong, there will be less original ideas. Instead, they will be made into what some people think is the "ideal student." As the video stated, I also think that education is diverse. There is not one way to teach the youth of the world. They need to be allowed to explore new ideas and be given more freedom. There was the one girl who expressed herself through movement, but had trouble in the regular schooling atmosphere. She ended up being extremely successful. Why not give this opportunity to more children? Instead, we medicate our children because we think they are too hyper while they are just being themselves and being kids. Just because a kid will not sit still in the classroom, we believe he or she has a learning disability. I disagree. These kids typically just have another way of expressing themselves and a different way of seeing things.

Creativity is discouraged in the modern school system. Our youth are more afraid to make mistakes, which leads to less original ideas. Arts are among the first losses when schools face budget cuts. In the future, these kids' creativity is what will allow them to be successful because the average college degree means very little compared to what it used to. All in all, schools need to praise the creativity of its children and rethink the hierarchy of the school subjects taught in the classrooms.