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.

1 comments:

Paula said...

Good job, Jorge.

This is the marking criteria:

All aspects of the task are very well handled.
3 points.

Good use of lexical resources. Coherence generally well handled.
2 points.

Grammar is adequate despite minor errors.
2 points.

7 points : Grade: 5.5