Modern Education Prevents Us From Being Creative
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In recent years, it is a fact that schools and education
have improved. Since my parents attended school, the opportunities that have
been provided for us, have certainly been enriched. I am able to go on a number
of school trips each year and be able to get involved in different departments
across the board. However, school is
lacking one major thing, the ability to let kids be creative.
In the past I have had teachers tell me that my ideas for
creative writing pieces have been ‘too
vast’ or that in recent days, I have been ‘a bit too ambitious’ with ideas brainstormed for where I could get
work experience. Both these examples and many more, have led me to feel
angered.
Furthermore, this is simply hypocritical.
Throughout my younger years in education I have had teachers
express that us kids are no longer creative and that we must try to think of
new creative ideas or ways in which we can go about tasks. Something that has henceforth,
been totally ignored, when a member of staff has told oneself that their ideas
are ‘a bit too ambitious’ or ‘too vast’.
Moreover, at the end of Year 11 (aged 15-16), I will sit
GCSE examinations, (where I will have to sit deadly silent amongst the rest of
my year, having roughly 2hrs (depending on the course), to splurge out all previously
revised facts onto an exam paper), which are extremely similar to what occurred
in the Victorian era. Leaving me notified that no creatively has been applied
to the way in which we sit GCSEs. To further my point, the use of more exams
than coursework for the younger years at my school, contradicts the idea that most
professions teachers are pushing us into, involve team work, something that
will hardly ever occur in modern day examinations
.
Now yes, there has been art lessons where I can paint
whatever I wish, Performing Art lessons where I can make up my own piece
however at the end of the day, I will always been graded. For example, there
will be a mark sheet in front of the teacher indicating whether my newly
choreographed dance has been executed properly or not (right or wrong), despite the fact that what I have performed is
something that I am ‘able to be creative with’. Until I leave high school, there will never be
a time or place where I can truly be creative without anyone judging me for it
and this is why I believe schools are not letting their students be as creative
as they let on.
What do you guys think?
Screw them - stay you
cus you are rad
♥
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