It's been argued before that education kills off creativity. The main focus of schools is to educate us on what we should expect to know in the future, and they constantly better the newer generations compared to those previously schooled before. School focuses on mathematics, sciences, literature, and writing. It only dabbles on the fine arts such as art, dance, and music. This can be justified by the fact that throughout my education in high school, I had to take one credit of the fine arts compared to three or four years of general education courses, like science, history, math, and literature courses.
Personally, I would say that school does help to kill off a person's creativity. Because we aren't taught to explore the side of us that whispers, "what if this happened?", we are deprived of expanding our creative mindset. We are forced to accept that the fine arts are less important compared to the other subjects. If they were more important, if we were supposed to focus more on the creative aspects of life, then why do we barely note them in our education?
Throughout school, I was blessed to be given the chance to better explore the more creative sides of who I am, which helped me to become more of who I am today. From middle school, I partook in band as a flutist and had the chance to have an art class one per year for a semester. In high school my schedule was loosened because I no longer played in the band. From freshman year through to my senior year, I was granted the chance to have at least one course per semester that I could take which was focused on creativity. I had creative writing courses where we had focused on particular elements of literature, but could write anything we pleased as long as it played to the element in discussion. I took various art courses, which gave us a main topic to focus on, like the emotions, and granted us to paint whatever came to mind when we thought of that topic. I had even been given the chance to take a multimedia class, where we made our own movies and posters using photo shop and Microsoft Movie Maker.
Because I had been given the chance to further explore the more creative parts of myself, I took the opportunity outside of school to allow that part to grow. I had bought the equipment needed to do the things I had learned at school in my spare time, and it had really helped me to develop my creativity. Although schools don't focus primarily in the creative aspects of life, we still get a small taste of what it's like to play on with those parts of life. If we enjoy them, we have the chance to care for them outside of education. I do believe that education malnourished our creative portions but we cannot blame their deaths solely on our education. We must take the time to care and mend for them.
I too explored more of my creative side by being in choir my freshman year (until we kept making our choir teacher cry, so I quit). I was in band all four years of high school plus middle school and elementary school. Plus, I did explore more creativeness with a video editing class, using iMovie. I also was known as the technology guy in my school because I edited a lot of video and I also videoed the morning announcement which we broadcasted throughout the entire school.
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