Does school kill creativity?

[Keanumoreira]

Pablo Picasso once said "every boy and girl is born an artist. The only problem is remaining an artist".

 

 

The way things are taught in school these days, it seems that artistic intellectuals and potential artistic intellectuals are being threatened, seeing as to how academics are rated as the most crucial for students to learn, with little emphasis and practically no encouragement given to the artistic side of humanity. After all, our brains are separated into two conjoining spheres: one logical, one creative. So why is creativity being underrated here? Are schools turning away from our spontaneity and ingenuity and instead focusing on academics as something more important?

 

 

You can also go to Ted.com and listen to what they have to say about it too. That's where I got the quote from. :sweat:

[HeyYou]

Government regulation, lack of funding, and basic busy bodies are killing creativity in schools. What are some of the first programs that are cut when the budgets get tight? Is it sports programs?? Oh heck no. It's the arts...... Thank our federal government (US) for that.

[Moveing]

lack of funding,

 

Everything the government does is underfunded. Even if they had ten times the money they get they would be still underfunded. Its a waste, thats all. Never could there be funding without government regulations and never could there be done anything without funding. Public schools are a waste, just a waste.

 

 

American kids, dumber than dirt Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history

 

By the way i realy don't care about any art classes. Does it destory creativity? Yes it does. Even they have art classes, and i had them, they tell you what to paint, what to draw and what stuff baste together.

 

 

Keanumoreira

After all, our brains are separated into two conjoining spheres: one logical, one creative.

Yeah, yeah one is emotional the other one is rational. The hemisphere model was popular in science a while ago but it has nothing to do with reality and is outdated.

[JimboUK]

Don't think funding is the answer because it isn't, on this side of the pond the last government threw billions at the schools, the result? employers are now complaining that an alarming number of todays school leavers are completely unemployable because they can't read or write properly.

[HeyYou]

Don't think funding is the answer because it isn't, on this side of the pond the last government threw billions at the schools, the result? employers are now complaining that an alarming number of todays school leavers are completely unemployable because they can't read or write properly.

 

We have the same problem here..... universities are being forced to offer more remedial courses due to the fact that the 'graduates' lack in reading and math skills.......

[JimboUK]

Don't think funding is the answer because it isn't, on this side of the pond the last government threw billions at the schools, the result? employers are now complaining that an alarming number of todays school leavers are completely unemployable because they can't read or write properly.

 

We have the same problem here..... universities are being forced to offer more remedial courses due to the fact that the 'graduates' lack in reading and math skills.......

 

It's the same for our universities, even employers now are having to pick up the pieces. This from the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) makes for quite a depressing read.

[Keanumoreira]

Government regulation, lack of funding, and basic busy bodies are killing creativity in schools. What are some of the first programs that are cut when the budgets get tight? Is it sports programs?? Oh heck no. It's the arts...... Thank our federal government (US) for that.

 

Exactamundo.

 

It's ALWAYS the first to go. Creativity and academics can flourish side by side without having to kill one of them. Where would we be without both? Humanity needs a little ingenuity to spur progress along. Its what helped to get us to discover the Americas, and to land on the moon. We all have to be a little creative to truly get the best out of life. At least, that's how I see it.

[saadus]

School itself discourages creativity, ingenuity, that simple spark in like that brings worth wonderful ideas and creations.

 

Nowadays, schools are too hooked up on what kids memorized, not what they understand. As for art classes....my art teacher, whom killed my creativity fun level single handily, won't allow any paintings or forms of art unless they can be sold. He tells everyone what to paint, what to draw, how to draw it. Woe be you if you failed to do it exactly like he did.

 

That isn't art....Art is the truest expression of freedom, of individuality. It contains our emotions, our desires, our thoughts, our opinions. They embody Love, Hate, Greed, Selflessness, Courage, Honor, Treachery. They embody our dreams of sailing, of reaching for the stars. It's form could be from a painting to sculpting, to even ceramics. What Art ISN'T is a manufactured good, a product made the same countless times with the tiniest variations. That isn't Art; that is the darkness of a Cultural Backlash, a decline.

 

Look how some schools have uniforms even! They want everyone to be the same, all equal. What exactly are we trying to be equal to? Cattle? Sheep? Wearing the same thing day after day, week after week, seeing the same droll colors on everyone...it makes me want to listen to Pink Floyd Another Brick in a Wall (2). It discourages students to think outside the box, to expand their horizons, to test the limits of their intellect, their ingenuity, their creativity, and dare I say it, their imaginations.

 

America is heading to a Cultural Decline as well as Economical and anything else you want to throw into the mix. We are not teaching kids to think; we are teaching them to memorize. Nothing in this world is more important then the human mind. It is our greatest gift and our curse. It is one of the few things that has allowed man to overcome obstacles that would have wiped us out. It allowed the Romans to build an Empire, Greece to discover its marvelous culture, to America becoming free.

 

To leave a mind untapped is dangerous as it is wasteful. No one will think on their actions, their beliefs. They won't be able to see the world past the physical, the world of dreams, of imagination, of things that Could Be.

 

It is a sad time for America as our next generation arrives and is taught by those who don't know creativity. It will lead to a chain reaction that WILL cause this country's downfall, and possibly the world's as well.

[marharth]

The issue isn't really lack of funding, it is that the funding is getting thrown away for a bunch of useless crap.

 

Government regulation isn't a issue either, it is that the methods of regulation are incorrect.

[pseudobio]

Creativity isn't valued by a world culture who sees logic as the only means of expression. Art and the humanities are seen in the present world culture as a waste of time when we need individuals to work towards the next great tech gadget rather than the next great music composer or poet who inspires a generation to love and help those who need help. We are becoming a bunch of robots with curcuit boards and software programming rather than human beings with emotions and personal needs.