The Importance Of Creative Education

A cursed yet much-frequented place, a prison without bars, an ideal learning environment that turned into the epitome of boredom: School. Students, the future generation, are inheriting a complex world marked by globalization, technological and scientific milestones bundled together with crises such as terrorism, recessions and strained resources. The importance of an effective education cannot be overstated. Advocates of reform and policymakers around the world have expressed the value of creative, innovative teaching to ensure a future generation of skilled thinkers and doers. Current schools are characterized by, but not limited to, their inflexible national curricula and standardized testing, which creates an ineffective learning environment

The globally similar layout of classrooms and the overall schedule of schools may be identical, but teachers are still independent in their method of teaching. For example, in a perceived, uncreative subject as math, teachers - given the freedom - can use software to explore tangent graphs or use schoolyard trees to test the Pythagoras theorem. Crucial for this argument is the education of teachers: developing their skills to nurture creativity amongst their students. Admittedly, teachers as facilitators of learning play an important role in conveying messages creatively and fostering creativity in students. Nevertheless, their efforts to enhance creative learning are bound to the classroom. In the end, a rigid curriculum and standardized examinations are not effective procedures and assessments for creative thinking skills. While committed teachers can dampen certain adverse impacts, a flawed environment cannot be a permanent

In this pyramid, math, languages and sciences are at the top, followed by the humanities, with arts at the bottom. According to Robinson, there is a hierarchy within the arts itself, with music being above drama and dance. The importance of personalized teaching according to a child’s strength is exemplified by Gillian Lynne, who underperformed in school, was placed into a dance school and is now a world famous choreographer with ‘Cats’ being one of her biggest achievements. However, as a result of current education, we have “a few Gillian Lynne’s in the world, but there 's a surplus of MBAs” (Baer 2016). Not only is the hierarchy of subjects controversial, the whole perception of learning seems erroneous. A complex process of the mind cannot solely be measured by multiple-choice tests or a single right answer. Robinson concludes the controversy surrounding standardized testing, saying that the problem arises when these tests turn from being a tool to the focus of education (Shepherd 2009). It is often argued that the hierarchy of subjects is justified and that it empowers and enables talent and creativity to take fruition. In the end, a stunning 17% of teenagers in the UK leave school functionally illiterate (17% of school leavers 'functionally) and according to Kirby (2013) every parent would prefer a child who can read and write properly to a child that can