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Comment by cornel airinei on 18 September 2008 at 12:02pm

Tonito,our world is not "more beautiful", our world is going
straight to hell !

Comment by Giulio Baistrocchi on 15 September 2008 at 6:00pm

well schools are like a prison for ''good'' kids, they learn how to deal with discipline and learn to be proper citizen.To my mind school's aim is to destroy your imagination and to fighjt this is like a survivor experience. i ve been through italian french and english educational system, and it is just a system. therefore to preserve our own imagination even in prison is the anwer. schools are a system who is supposed to deal with another system: society. In school we learn to follow society, reject it or simply take the elements, the wheapon for our success or survival.the culture we learn is opppressive but the world we live is oppressive likewise so with culture(not education which is a different subject) we can understand these opressive mechanisms better. a kind of freedom comes from this knowledge by putting together contradictory data and comparing it, family schools media books etc... .
a neverending attitude, combined with a certain fatalism, in order to defend our creativity.creativity is innate but to preserve it is a peaceful war

Comment by Susanne Niebruegge-Alm on 15 September 2008 at 11:56am

And nowadays its very much harder for kids to rescue their creativity, cause its torn down much more to be useless in germany, then it was in my childhood . The only hope are the left over and seldom to meet teachers, who still see possibilities for kids, who have talents, that are not the so called "usefull talents"...

Comment by Susanne Niebruegge-Alm on 15 September 2008 at 11:43am

The daydreaming- theme i know well...and I agree a lot with your comment pennie. I think school can kill creativity, if there is nothing (at home or elsewhere) what strengthens the motivation to go on. I remember me painting even in gymnasium "school-art"...and at home "my art". Ken Robinson speaks me out of my soul!

Comment by Tonito Valderrama on 15 September 2008 at 2:29am

I feel that schools have become so math and science based in order to create a conformity of business minded capitalists that they have left no room for the individual creativity to grow. With such a demand for economic power as a country our schools are forgetting how important the intangible,unstandardized learning is for children. I don't blame the teachers, but I do blame the government for for forcing a curriculum and standards that meet left brain thinkers only. Let them remember that without art and individual creativity we would not have anything in our lives. For it is the culinary artist that creates the meals, the architect who designs our houses and cities and the artist who helps make this world more beautiful!

Comment by mike hinc on 13 September 2008 at 9:25am

Can't agree more about daydreaming. Always had the feeling that at school intelligence was confused with what Orwell called "a writhing mass of imbecile enthusiasms". The horror!

Comment by Kestrel on 12 September 2008 at 9:46am

Schools as a part of life in the 21st Century do little to enhance creativity. There are some teachers who give heart and soul into developing creativity within a system that does not place value on the creative process or on art as a means of expression - only as a means to making financial gain. Some schools, Rudolph Steiner Waldorf schools for example, place creativity at the heart of their educational ethos.
I chose not to send my older two children to school as is my legal right to do here in the UK. I followed the 'autonomous education' idea and did my best to facilitate their learning. I observed that the beginning of the creative process is often destruction. It seems to me that many school children are never allowed to progress the process of destruction leading to creation and are labelled 'destructive'. How can we learn how things work without pulling them apart to see how they fit together and function? Another important part of the creative process is to sit and do nothing at all. Often seen by outsiders (teachers) as being lazy or not trying hard enough or day dreaming. This passive state is to be encouraged as part of crativity and in shools it most definately is not. Most schools are places where constant movement and hopping from on activity to another are celebrated... staring out of the window is most definately not. Personally that was my favorite activity in school!

Comment by cornel airinei on 12 September 2008 at 9:13am

The school is part of jungle...
Savage civilization...
Look at we done with Terra...
Thank you ,Mike !

Comment by mike hinc on 12 September 2008 at 8:23am

There are many people on this site who as teachers and academics are better qualified to judge than me. But I have been through the school system - several times at degree level and my own feeling is yes, schools can kill creativity...but only if you let them.

IMHO the individual child must learn to discriminate and take from the school what he needs and keep and protect from the school what he wants to. It's a jungle out there and schools should be seen as part of that jungle - not some nice old granny dishing out the candy. The candy's not poisoned but it is laced with laudanum. The child should be as critical and wary of schooling as he is of any other aspect of modern life. Otherwise schools become colleges for industry producing morons for the labour market.

Comment by Pennie Steel on 12 September 2008 at 3:36am

I didnt check before I posted so please excuse the typos.....or is that creativity!!

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