中小学教育扼杀学生的创造力SchoolsStifleCreativity（精编版）

1、- - schools stifle creativity abstract creativity is essential in every aspect of daily work and study. schools should encourage and teach students to use their creative thinking, which should have been one of the purposes of public education. however, creativity is stifled and, not surprisingly, sc

2、hools that comply with rigid education system are to blame. key words: education, creativity, intelligence, academics, school systems, standardized test, divergent thinking picasso once said that all children are born artists. we all approve of the idea that children have their capabilities or innov

3、ation, but somehow they lose them with gradual growth. i believe people get educated out of creativity. creativity expert sir ken robinson said, “we do not grow into creativity, but we grow out of it. ” it mainly roots in the educational situation. he champions a radical rethink of our school system

4、s, to cultivate creativity - - and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. in his speech about education and creativity, with ample anecdotes and witty asides, robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -much less cultivate - the talents of many brilliant people. much of the

5、 content of his speech was reflective of the way education has been structured, which was considered as killing creativity. mr. robinson has made me realize that what schools teach is in breach of creativity. it is crazy to think that we are teaching kids for a future that we can not even begin to m

6、ake predictions about. for some reason school systems are so dedicated to teaching facts, which leads to a fact that children searching text for facts. sadly the majority of these facts can be found with a quick google search. obviously in some circumstance we can not find answers or we are not sure

7、 about what the facts are, but our schools also teach persuasively in their basic identical way. for instance, how do we educate our children to take their place in the economics of the 21st century, given that we can not anticipate what the economy will look like at the end of next week? how can we

8、 do that? not only do schools do what they did in the past, but they alienate many kids by criticizing them stupid boys. so what is the whole purpose of public education throughout the world? mr. robinson said the purpose is to produce university professors. to a certain extent it is - - reasonable

9、because generally people think children are not good enough if they can not get all a in their examinations. once addicted to some special interest like hobbies concerning computer or music, they would be forced to give them up and stick to study all the time. undoubtedly creativity is killed in the

10、 name of proper education. as the development of economy, now the world becomes economic globalization, which makes dominant systems of education being rooted in the values and demands of industrialism. it seems that every education system all over the world has the same hierarchy of subjects. the s

11、chools pay more attention to mathematics, sciences and languages, and the arts are always at the bottom. there is no denying the fact that learning mathematics and sciences are good for us to make our living in the future. however, students spend much time just on mechanical practice, which not only

12、 can not improve their intelligence but also lose their creativity gradually. have you ever noticed that many social, economic, spiritual and environmental challenges we now face depend on the very capacities of creativity? therefore, education system should be about developing human beings, and hum

13、an development is not mechanical or linear. it should be organic and dynamic. in education, the emphasis on standardized testing such as the sat in - - usa and college entrance examination in china is typical exam-oriented education. under an obsessive culture of standardized testing and tight finan

14、cial pressures, many teachers just focus on the right answer to the question especially on the multiple choice question rather than encouraging students to think deeply and explore their interests in depth, which hampers further creative thinking in students. it leads to a disastrous waste of talent

15、 among students and their teachers. the emphasis on testing and passing exams which are guarantees of entering colleges often squeezes out the development of other vital skills, such as creative thinking, collaborating or communicative skill. now more and more students going to college are just to g

16、et a higher degree in order to entitle to the job requirement but not to develop their interests in what they learn. in this case, creativity is stifled gradually. it also causes academic inflation which impairs the value of the college diploma. so, education needs to be progressive, but this cannot

17、 be done alone, it needs leadership support. some measures must be taken by government to change this condition. in 1968, nevada revised their citizen education protection law to protect the childrens creativity from school education. research shows that highly creative persons have broad interests,

18、 good sense of humor, quick response, confident and efficient. school, family and society are - - key factors in cultivating these characters. teachers and parents often say, stop dreaming and get to work. this should not be a valuable maxim any more. we absolutely need dreams. without dreams, manki

19、nd would not be able to fly up to the sky. we can also teach the students to seek common points while reserving differences. this is another way to stimulate their creativities. brain storming, here it means we can introduce divergent thinking method to the students. in this way, they put different

20、kinds of information together, assemble randomly, sift and analyze to figure out the connection. in writing class, teacher can provide students with unrelated words to make stories. thinking in images is a widely spread method to improve your creativity. generally we see those painters and artists as the most creative people. actually everyone can try to think and express in images. in this way, we can easily find the details and contradictions in recurring images. drawing pictures, w