12 Things You Were Not Taught In School

Ever since people started going to school it had only one purpose : getting an education. In other words,getting good grades. Schools or most teachers only care about sticking to the syllabus and covering the topics they think are important. Their main goal is for students to get good grades ,ace every exam and finally graduate without being different in any kind from everyone else. However that is not the purpose of getting an education. Education should build your character, your personality. It should broaden your mind and make you think about everything you see. But how can you have all that when they do not even teach one course about creativity in school? Teachers do not care about building a childs personality that lasts a lifetime. Some think that creativity is a talent. You either have it or not. But actually that statement is false. Everyone is born creative. Some choose or get the oppertunity to embrace it and others are not that fortunate. However, creativity needs work. You can not sit all day and expect yourself to come up with brilliant ideas. And you have to expect that a lot of people will doubt you and tell you what a stupid idea you came up with. But that should not stand in your way,actually the opposite,you should work to prove them wrong. Another aspect is that the human brain was not designed to memorize every single information you take in school like teachers claim. A brain’s main function is to think and come up with new ideas. Even if they are crazy there is no such thing as a bad idea or a right opinion. People were made to be diverse and think differently than one another. That is why we should all defer from judgement and accept each others ideas and maybe we could join them together in a way to create something extraordinary. People’s personalities reflect on their own ideas so do not expect others to see your idea as good as you do. Creativity teaches the mind how to be different and useful. It also teaches people how to solve problems and look at things from a different perspective. All these reasons make me strongly support the idea of teaching creativity in school.