Education Kills Creativity. Discuss.

creativity,”. In an education world obsessed with curriculum standards and high-stakes testing, students are funneled onto particular tracks, rather than being allowed to choose their own adventures and explore their passions. The definition of education is to learn and to increase our knowledge and a school is a place for education. The purpose of education is to use the knowledge we have learnt. Schools main purposes are to prepare us to get good marks and get into a university. In this process they are blinding students from creativity. Most Teachers nowadays are treating students like robots and programming only the right answers into their student’s brain. As a result students are so worried to get an answer wrong that they are not exploring their wealth of knowledge they have learnt.  Students have learned to stop questioning the world, they have been told to go with the flow, and they believe that there's only one right answer to each question. The "whys" they have always wanted to ask are never on the test, and they are omitted from the curriculum. Creativity isn't a test to take, a skill to learn, or a program to develop. Creativity is seeing things in new ways, breaking barriers that stood in front of them. Creativity is the art of writing a poem that is unique or seeing a work of art on empty canvas. Its essence is in its freshness and the ability to make dreams come to life.  The methodologies in schools are demolishing creativity. Students have lost their capacity of creation simply because the teaching method doesn’t stimulate innovation and creativity.  Looking at things, ideas and knowledge in a different perspective is what creativity is all about. We have heard of the story behind the discovery of gravity. Basically newton was sitting under a tree and an apple fell on his head. If Isaac Newton didn’t look at the apple in a different perspective we wouldn’t have known the concept of gravity.  All the knowledge of modern physics would have been completely lost.   Students with great minds are far from being nurtured for curiosity and are ignored or even aspersed, with consequences. The importance of creativity can also be applied to real life world. According To AMS 99.6% of successful persons have become successful because of creativity. Also creativity is what separates humans from animals. Even a monkey can be taught to count and to speak just like us. Being able to create something unique from nothing is magical. It builds self-confidence within us that strengths us. Being creative helps us feel challenged and learn to overcome those challenges. It makes us more interesting people and in turn attracts others to us.  Bringing creativity into school and to students  lives is not only useful for helping to lead richer and more interesting lives, it’s also a lot more fun when we are living a creative life.  So why not we get prepared now for the future and rethink the ways that schools should be run.