Do Schools Kill Creativity?

3 Ideas you agree with
*That everyone has very passionate emotions tied to education. It is something that shapes us and affects us our entire lives. Teachers need to realize that we can either encourage students and give them a positive view of education or we can leave them with lasting negative feelings towards school and learning.

*We have alot of students, espescially teens and young adults that are afraid to be wrong. They are missing valuable opportunities to grow and achieve due to their fear of failure. We have polarized failure to such a point that it leaves such scarring with people who have failed and been embarassed by how the world treats them because of certain failure.

*There are certain kinds of learners that will only thrive in the areas which they have passion for and can think effectively. Some learners will only respond and think properly when their bodies are moving, some when they are hearing things that connect the learning, some who are seeing visual examples tied to the learning, etc. Schools need to be more specialized in reaching all different types of learners.

2 Ideas that surprised you
*I have never really through about it, but it is true that every country around the world follows the same hierarchy of subjects. Math and Language are always the most important. You would think that certain cultures might place more importance on other areas.

*How some of the advice we were given when we were younger and in school was not helpful for most of us. We were told that certain subjects, interests, and skills will not be able to provide us with job opportunities. Alot of students are continually guided into directions they do no want to go, directions in which they have absolutely no interest or passion. I can't describe to you how much this bothers me as it is something I have experienced personally as well. Countless college students spend a fortune to obtain a degree in which they later find out they truly don't love or don't want to use. They were led in the wrong direction by opinions and advice they took in throughout their schooling.

1 Idea that you confused you or you disagree with
*Everyone has ideas of what is wrong with school and why students are failing, but it never seems like anyone is coming up with reasonable, feasibly ways to help students succeed. We always seem to have all these solutions and plans but none of them seem like they can actually be done in the real world in a classroom full of 25 students. Education is in desperate need of reform and we need to come up simple, real solutions they can implement into the classroom right now.