Educating Creativity?

  
     Everyone is bored. Therefore they always desire something very fresh and new. That's why creativity is respected in modern society. When people  a new idea, they feel to be out of their ordinary boundary, which gives them freedom. However, as public school doesn't grow students' creativity, many adults live with dead creativity. In the TED video, Ken Robinson said, "Creativity now is as important in education as literacy." And I definitely agree.
     Society asks grown-ups to use creativity. However, children have better creativity than adults. It's because the public school system restricts the students to follow rules, and boundaries of their precedents. However, breaking out of rules is needed in developing creativity, because the shock that creativity gives to people is based on deviation. Public education system need to give children chances to be out of sense, if they really want the children to have a sense of creativity. Just forcing students to find a common quote to have a better hook in writing won't be helping. To have an aspect that differs the person from others isn't a better score or organized writing. Creativity that is different from ordinary thoughts, will make the person different from ordinary others.

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     When I watched this video, I first thought, 'Wow, how boring and same is that life.' But as I thought deeper, I could realize that the person who made this won't be living such a boring life. To make a scenario, and to film this video, creativity is needed, which this student succeeded to use. But would this person come up with the idea to make a film that's very humorous and both educational, when he was thinking himself? Would he have made the scenario that shows the Korean high school student's life very well, all by himself? No. He probably was groaning with his friends about their life, realizing that their lives were incredibly similar. Then, they would have realized the most of Korea's high school students' lives are like theirs too, even though they are very different beings inside. Like this, talking and having good relationship with others helps a new idea to pop up. One idea plus one idea equals three ideas. But public education makes students to compete with others, making them to be isolated. This interrupts students from using their creativity, which can only be practiced by sharing ideas with others.
     The main reason that the public school can't concentrate on developing creativity is because the companies and working places only value the university he or she has been, and academic grades. If the working places start to value the creativity more, then the public schools will automatically concentrate on developing different ideas, which leads to the increase of creativity. It's true that the university's name and grade are important, as they show the student's academic ability, how much he or she has learned, and how hard the person worked. It's not fair to ignore, as it is gained by proper and proven work. However, companies should care more about the applicants' creativity more for both the company's and public education's future. If creativity becomes one of the most important factor of getting to a higher school or gaining a job, company will be able to have people who are creative enough to lead the company to a higher place in the age of limitless competition. And public school will work on increasing students' creativity, not killing them like now.
    However, I disagree some parts in the TED video above. The Ken Robinson said that students should have chances to develop their own abilities starting at young age. However, I believe all students should take courses that are until least middle school. Until middle school, the education is more like basic knowledge that doesn't need deep insights to understand. Therefore, I believe middle school education is required as it is basis of knowledge related to living in a society as a proper citizen. Also, creativity doesn't come out of nowhere. They are based on the background knowledge. For example, car designer needs background knowledge about the car's basic components and their functions in order to create a new design. If not, the design would be useless as it may disrupt the functions of the pieces of the car. Therefore, students should least attend until the middles school and gain basic knowledge, even though that is provided same to everyone, to have a better foundation of more creative ideas.
     Although there are some parts that I have a different view, Ken Robinson's lecture was brilliant and made me think deeply about the problems of public school system. As people like Ken Robinson exist to give out lectures that will make people realize about the problems, now the world needs people who will take actions to actually change it. If the ideas and actions are combined, school will be a place that actually educates the creativity