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.

Do schools kill creativity?

The argument that Ken Robinson is making is that the educational system nowadays is killing all the creativity in children. Children are used to the same style of learning in school and grow up to work in ordinary jobs and lead a normal life without anything extraordinary. Due to this lack of change in the system children are introduced to linear paths and don’t get the chance to think from different perspectives and accept opinions that do not match their narrow way of thinking.

I believe that within children or people in general rests creativity. The educational system kills that inside them and developes them into machines.

Creativity Quotes

” Be brave enough to live creatively.The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” -Alan Alda

This quote teaches you how to let go of your comfort zone in order to reach creativity. Everyone should be brave enough to experiment new things and allow themselves to think out side the box even if everyone else is not. If someone really starts accepting creativity in his life,he will begin to learn new things about himself that he never really knew existed.

Creativity Quotes

Creativity Quotes

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it,they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. -Steve Jobs

This quote points out that creativity lies within us all. Creativity is not impossible to find, you just have to search in yourself and see things with a different perspective. People should stop looking at things from one angle and open up to other options,because creativity is just really being simple by connecting things together. Once someone connects the “dots”, experiences or even starts seeing the world from various perspectives they lead their way as creative people.

What does creativity mean to me?

Creativity is the ability to use imagination and original ideas to create or express something.  It is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment and brings our awareness at what was previously hidden and points it to new life.