Everybody reminds me, the more you do something, the better. I have written for the past fifteen years yet, I am a terrible writer.
My relation with writing started earlier than with my reading. Since my parents were teachers of a small school in the village in Nepal, they decided to enroll their daughters in boarding school in the city. It was nothing like home. My parents were not there to read stories like other normal kids. With twenty other kids just like me, maybe it was impossible for the caretaker to read bedtime stories which are why I had to force myself to sleep every day hence, I do not have any close relation with any bedtime book. Fortunately, I was familiar with famous children 's stories as they were the course in later classes …show more content…
As time went by, my major changed from social activist to civil engineering. My creativity was not killed rather, it did not get any space to grow. It was not only my dream that was renovated but of the entire students. My friend, she was a great dancer and singer who has won many awards in competition, however, she refused to major in Theatre and choose to engineer. Just like Robinson outline in his speech (Do school kills creativity?), “schools create the hierarchy of subjects.” (Robinson). The school expects all their students to become successful doctors and engineers. In class, they encourage us to dream. Then ask us, “Do you really think you can survive doing that?” and then shatter our dream into pieces. Our immature brain started accepting that there is no future other than in STEM fields. We all can relate to what Robinson said, “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”(Robinson). We all are frightened to be creative. We all are sheep, nobody is taught to be brave enough to be a …show more content…
We all drew different shapes and imagine it was the best one. We share our stories, even though it did not have any themes. We all made jokes even though it was not funny. We sang and dance freely. I think it is too late for us to be creative now. It is not impossible. However, it is difficult. The more we know, the harder it is to see things differently because we get locked into old ways of thinking. It takes work to be creative, and it will take a lot of time, risk, and failure. It needs patience. It needs courage.
It would be a lie if I say I did not enjoy working in a lab, experimenting different chemical reactions, challenging the class to make the strongest bridge and tallest tower, playing with the Qbasic and algorithm. And If only these activities were more. I would happily admit I was creative. Schools should focus more on these activities. They should give tasks that will force them to think outside of the box rather than following theory and experiment. In short, whichever major a student chooses, there should be the variety of activities that they can be
My relation with writing started earlier than with my reading. Since my parents were teachers of a small school in the village in Nepal, they decided to enroll their daughters in boarding school in the city. It was nothing like home. My parents were not there to read stories like other normal kids. With twenty other kids just like me, maybe it was impossible for the caretaker to read bedtime stories which are why I had to force myself to sleep every day hence, I do not have any close relation with any bedtime book. Fortunately, I was familiar with famous children 's stories as they were the course in later classes …show more content…
As time went by, my major changed from social activist to civil engineering. My creativity was not killed rather, it did not get any space to grow. It was not only my dream that was renovated but of the entire students. My friend, she was a great dancer and singer who has won many awards in competition, however, she refused to major in Theatre and choose to engineer. Just like Robinson outline in his speech (Do school kills creativity?), “schools create the hierarchy of subjects.” (Robinson). The school expects all their students to become successful doctors and engineers. In class, they encourage us to dream. Then ask us, “Do you really think you can survive doing that?” and then shatter our dream into pieces. Our immature brain started accepting that there is no future other than in STEM fields. We all can relate to what Robinson said, “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”(Robinson). We all are frightened to be creative. We all are sheep, nobody is taught to be brave enough to be a …show more content…
We all drew different shapes and imagine it was the best one. We share our stories, even though it did not have any themes. We all made jokes even though it was not funny. We sang and dance freely. I think it is too late for us to be creative now. It is not impossible. However, it is difficult. The more we know, the harder it is to see things differently because we get locked into old ways of thinking. It takes work to be creative, and it will take a lot of time, risk, and failure. It needs patience. It needs courage.
It would be a lie if I say I did not enjoy working in a lab, experimenting different chemical reactions, challenging the class to make the strongest bridge and tallest tower, playing with the Qbasic and algorithm. And If only these activities were more. I would happily admit I was creative. Schools should focus more on these activities. They should give tasks that will force them to think outside of the box rather than following theory and experiment. In short, whichever major a student chooses, there should be the variety of activities that they can be