Killing Creativity

   According to Dictionary.com, a person with creativity has “the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns…to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods…” In conclusion, a creative person does not worry about being incorrect. Children tend to lose their creativity as they become educated and this occurred to me. As a child, I raised my hand and tried to answer every question. Then, as I entered the last years of my education I answered less and less questions. Everyone was afraid to answer incorrectly because our classmates made fun of each other. I realized that these fears started in second grade when I learned to read. Now in 2012, students still develop these fears but at a younger age.

   As the years go by, education demands more from our children and at a younger age. For example, when I met the kindergarten teacher that I will observe, I was amazed. Children are now required to read in kindergarten. I was astonished because during my kindergarten years I learned the alphabet, colored and played. Children have become more uniformed as the years go by and at a younger age. As the video by Sir Kin Robison depicted, the children are manufactured to lose their creativity by the time they become adults. Children are now afraid to use their creativity because they want to fit in. As stated by Sir Kin Robison “What we do know is that if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original … and by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity.” It is hard to believe that schools are actually doing this to our children. The children from today are not creative and think twice before answering. They have become accustomed to being correct at all times so that others do not make fun of them. If this trend continues image our world in 2030.
-Gloria Macias

Source:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U