Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Education Kills Creativity

Before technological devices was discovered the human beings thrived in a cultural world filled with different types of art, music and books, it was valued to be creative, and creative individuals was truly recognised by the society. They also thrived to be knowledgeable therefore then be able to communicate with one another. 
In this century we are slowly killing this - by leeching off the technological devices, of course music is still valued but not much as art or books. Children, after they hit their teenage years do not consider art as a subject and books as 'uncool' they turn their backs on it and truly believe that this world has become boring. To replenish themselves they turn towards media. 

In primary we are encouraged to be creative and think outside of the box, educators create an environment that is inclusive, caring, hands-on approaches, educators are there to inspire the children and have taken on a role of creative approaches thus children have thirst for knowledge and willing to learn.
In secondary schools the thirst for knowledge becomes minimum for most, the experience of schooling becomes negative, the pressures from constant examination and squeezed in information, and no way to escape breeds hatred towards education.
To tackle this problem creativity must be imputed into secondary schools, creating other way and not just relying on the technological devices. E.g. R.S. is based solely on books, by creating activities such as group work, field trips, bringing art into R.S. (creating statues or mandalas) and working along with different subjects can promote amazing outcomes - combining Geography and R.S, when learning about the baptism of Jesus. 


Therefore subjects do not have to rely mostly on technologies, it only needs certain amount of work to make the subjects interesting (Pykett).



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