Review of "Schools kill creativity"

“We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we're educating our children.” If we start to think how the educational system around the world is configured, we would never ask ourselves why are math and language more important in every curriculum or the world. We are so used to think that these subject are mor eimportant that we even desestimate others things such as art and music. We even discourage kids, and not only kids, we make adults feel as if they were not smart enough to be as successful, and make people think that if they are better at art they are never going to succed in life, what at the time tends to obligate people to study something thats useful for production and the capitalist way of life in which we are now living in.
That´s one of the biggest problems in current societies, education was formed during industrialism. So now, as a consequence, the world needs people to work in the different levels that capitalism needs. We are taking creativity out of kids just for our functional needs, we are forming adults for production. Let´s value art and music as a form of intelligence. Academic achivment it´s not only being good at math. Let´s forget about that sort of achivment imposed by work needs. Let´s value differents ways of creating things, let´s value creativity itself.

I vote for Community Psychology!

My favorite subject is Community Psychology, one of the five introductory subjects of this semester. The proffesors who teaches this subject are Rodolfo Sapiains, Germán Rozas and Rodrigo Quiroz.

I like this subject because this stream of thought and work shows a clear political commitment in favor of the oppressed and the respect for the fundamental human rights. This discipline promotes the community development and the empowerment of social actors, so they can build their own reality. Additionally, Community Psychology was born on the quest for more humanitary solutions to issues of health, and for it, this discipline feeds on the knowledge from anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychiatry and other areas.
This semester I have learned to know the nuances of community work, its limitations, and possibilities for action, and also I had the opportunity to visit a community center called Centro Remolinos. This center works with childrens, victims of commercial sexual exploitation, resignified traumas and abuses suffered by them.

The next semester I hope to take subjects related with the community area.

♪ Our future life will be glorious, come with me.. FUTURE WORLD!! ♪ ♪ !

In the next 5 years, I’m going to finish my university studies of Psychology. Then, I’ll hope to work in a school as a educational psychologist, or in an nongovernment organization (NGO) as a community psychologist.

And in 5 years from now, I would like to do a master in psychology. Now I don’t have decided what kind of paradigm will guide my job, but I know that will not be the psychoanalysis. Maybe, I’ll work as Clinical Psychology, but I don’t like to classify people as healthy or ill as if I use labels. I prefer help in other way.

Personally, I’ll hope to live in a quiet place, and I would like to travel to Europe or Polynesian Islands. Maybe, I’ll live with a girl that I can love in the future. But we will not have any children until we will be older than 28 years old. I’ll hope to have a healthy life again.

I would like that the things could be better than now, in many ways. Now I’m working for it, I’m living in the best possible way; I’m studying a lot, and I’m taking care me the best that I can.

Now, I leave you with one of the better and famous songs of Helloween. This song have a special message.