28 Nisan 2011 Perşembe

Education vs Creativity

The issue in the hand whether creativity is killed by educaiton. There are many people say education is good to upbring creative students. I like educational process that help students to deepen students' creativity. However I believe that overall, formal educational process block students' creativity and kill its for the following reasons

First, formal educational curriculum is structred by governments for children to grow up children according to this structered curriculum. And it tremandously difficult that all children can maintain this curriculum. Imagine that you do not like history lesson but you have to get it and you have to think what books offered you. It is blocked process to cut critical thinking and open minds. There is a funny but engrossing story about the education in today. a child in a second grade in primary school drawing a picture of God, and teacher comes and asks "what are you drawing?" to child and she replied "Picture of God" and teacher tell to her: "you can not draw it because nobody can see the God" and again interesting answer from student that "they will see soon". In that example we can see the educational process block kids' minds to imagine, innovate or produce.
In addition to structured curriculum it also locks students' thinking freedomly process which takes them to creativity. When a brain does not think in critical way it means it is blocked or died. According to sir Ken Robinson "if you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original". In educational process students can not think what they want as example above in first paragraph, and it kills their brains and block of future planning. So that prıce us much worse than expected.
Ultimately, although educational process is often helpful for creativity of students, I feel that it is obstruction for the students for reasons that I have stated above. "A person die when he stops imagine", and craitivity is future of kids.

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