Education and Creativity

Hi:

 Education and creativity is the topic for this post. I think that that is a really interesting topic, for the moment that we are living in our country and how is the occidental world educating their child. I have share the same point of view, that school kill creativity, from some time ago.

I’m agree that the schools doesn’t foment a development of our creativity, because everything that we learned in the school is something already done, we don’t need to think about how you get to some math formulas and why the formula is like it is. The only thing that we do (the most of the times) is learn something and then apply it (but not on the most of the cases).

If with the traditional knowledge given by the school there aren’t so many activities for develop the creativity, what could we expect about artistic subjects? I know that in other countries the school realize more artistic activities than in Chile, and they also have better implements for that. But the matter is that those kinds of activities are not the most important in the curricular contents. I think that one important part of the problem is, as Ken Robinson says, that the schools are made for prepare university people, and obviously not everyone has the same facilities and skills for that, but they are really good in arts for example.

I hope that the education would be saw in other way with the time, because there are every time more people that take care about this matter and are suggesting new kinds of education. In fact there are some schools that have different philosophies of education, like Waldorf or Montessori. I suppose that the reason of why we don’t have an education that stimulates our creativity is that the system need people who doesn’t care too much about why things happens. I think that creativity make a awake mind, not like a sheep who doesn’t occurred how to change things that are not right.

See you!