Persuasive Essay: Should Schools Kill Creativity?

Creativity is a word that is heard throughout our time in school, however as you get older the word becomes less important because it has nothing to do with your “essential” subjects, or so some think. In the video we were asked to watch I could not help but agree on everything Sir Ken Robinson had to say. His ideas and way of thinking are remarkable and I found myself hanging on to every word and going back to listen to certain parts of the video again. I do, in fact, believe schools kill creativity, Robinson talks about how we as people do not grow into creativity, we grow out of it, or are better yet educated out of it. During elementary school I remember attending a music and art class every other day of the week and it was a chance for all of the students to be creative. Not all children are able to sit in a classroom for eight hours to learn the difference between nouns and pronouns, they need an outlet and for most children they no longer have that after elementary school.
Robinson stated in the video “as children grow we begin to educate them from their waist up and then their …show more content…
I have never personally thought of myself as a creative person but maybe it isn’t entirely my fault or any other student who feels the same way. As future educators it is our job to teach children material, but shouldn’t we be educating the whole child rather than just their head. If we get children moving, creating, and thinking with more than just their head we could end up finding that we have students who are brilliant, but not in the normal academic way public education looks for. We could discover musicians and dancers and artist if we gave those students an option, instead we rely heavily on how academically prepared our students will be for standardized tests or getting into college; we fail to help them discover their real potential by eliminating their creative