do school kills our creativity?

China
February 11, 2011 7:35am CST
Education has been a popular topic since the ancient time.However, as people's interest in education is rising,more and more people are questioning current education system.What's the relationship between education and creativity?Do education system associate with the decline of the creativity?How to protect and enhance the creativity?
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11 responses
@tkonlinevn (6438)
• Vietnam
22 Feb 11
We create the thing which we don't have, not create the thing which we had. So, we need to go to school. They teach us knowledge. We base in them to create other things. School is necessary for everyone.
@staria (2780)
• Philippines
22 Feb 11
By acquiring new learning, we can uplift our level of creativity. And the school provides a wide range of learning for us. It may not give every bit of information that we want, but what has been provided is up for us to flourish.
@youless (112243)
• Guangzhou, China
12 Feb 11
I really think that today our education system is so sick. The teachers all pay attention to the scores and push pressure for the students. As a parent, I also feel the pressure. We are all the machines which gain higher scores. However, I really wonder whether we can apply to what we have learned to the life. Have we learned something? Probably we forget it soon after exams. I love China
• China
12 Feb 11
How to create new things with creativity? I think we have to inherit what has been invented, learn them and then we can continue to create and be creative. With the help of education and school, we can learn the basic principles of different classes. With that foundation, we can learn more and create more.
@nj_1022 (251)
12 Feb 11
School does not keill our creativity. It is the new technology now that slowly kills it. Long time use of computers and other gadgets does not allow us to explore to crreate on our own because there are a lot of things available in the internet
• United States
11 Feb 11
for me personally inside that school building it killed all creativity but the second I got out for the day it went wild and I could express how I felt in my own ways. so yes it killed my spirit and creativity was part of that.
• India
11 Feb 11
Welcome to Mylot, yichenchen. Education is an integral part of human development process, whatever may be the mode of education. The thing is that education actually enables an individual to develop creative attitude, in the sense that it imparts the knowledge the world has gathered over thousands of years, so exposing the individual to the sea of possibilities. But, your statement is correct in some way. I mean, education forms the base of our creativity and is thus an essential ingredient in building a creative attitude, but it places an imaginary limit on one's degree of creativity. The education system, and selective education makes a person unaware of the fields that may contain huge future potential when explored by an inquisitive mind, if the person is free to decide his/her choices without bias. But, education places an element of bias on one's thinking and thus limiting the real capability of human mind. The best way to overcome this limitation is by removing the element of bias. I mean that we prejudice the things to be correct if the world tells us them to be correct and the reverse way is also true. Even though the experiences gathered by the world over the ages are mostly correct, they are not bound to be. So, the enhance your creativity, try to explore the other side of the coin too. Take, for example, the current hype about positive thinking from the philosophers of the modern world. They say that an attitude that "a glass is half full" is better than "the glass is half empty". And, we take this to be correct without giving it a deep thought of ourselves. They may be correct. But, exploring the other side of the coin tells us that, "Unless we realize that the glass is half empty, we can not make it full". So, "glass is half empty" is much better attitude for a progressive world, and "glass is half full" is a better choice for a world that is satisfied already and does not want to progress. Then, it is up to you to decide which way to choose.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
11 Feb 11
I believe that education can only enhance our creativity. i don't think that going to school can do anything to obliterate that. School can motivate and inspire that spark of creativity that has not yet found a way to blossom.
@rameshchow (4426)
• India
11 Feb 11
Its depends on the school management. And the teachers working in the school. Mainly the private school management are habiutered to taste the money only. They are running the schools with below average teachers. The teacher has to digg the creativity, interest, enthusiasm of the student in between the four walls of the classroom. I love my government school teachers. thanks to them. have a nice day. god bless you.
@didi13 (2926)
• Romania
11 Feb 11
I think sometimes the school is detrimental to creativity. It offers too much useless information! She should go on developing competencies and personal aptitudes! It is clear that no theory can not effectively practice but his theory is to the point! It's stupid to be taught many concepts that do not use it most times ever in your life! In our country, every minister has turned upside programs , methods of assessment and admission ...., students ,with teachers and parents alike to suffer !
• China
11 Feb 11
A little bit I think,because they teach us knowledge, these are based on the experience or the theory have been found before. It maybe tame us into keeping on the rails, seems like we tame a tiger into a kitten. Einstein said, imagination is more important than knowledge. However, we would be ignorant if we don't receive good education.