Should Schooling Be Taught In Schools Research Paper

Is Creativity Prioritized Enough in School In the schooling system today we are taught what we need to think about and retain those ideas until we are accessed to forget them shortly after, rarely learning of the nuances behind how we think and what we are truly capable of producing with our wonderful minds. Henry David Thoreau (1854) ponders the question ”How could youths better learn how to live than by once trying the experiment of living” and this quote from the late american essayist is a prime example of what the American schooling system is not taking full advantage of, learning through living and doing activities that we can utilize throughout our lives. Creativity is something that human beings have taken full advantage of since the
According to Ken Robinson (2006) in regards to classes, “At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and at the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on Earth.” He builds upon this idea by stating that “there's a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance. There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics.” But to what avail are these prioritized classes benefiting their students? Ken Robinson (2016) argues that “kids with degrees are often heading home to carry on playing video games, because you need an MA where the previous job required a BA, and now you need a PhD for the other. It's a process of academic inflation.” Ken Robinson goes on to say that “the consequence [of the hierarchy] is that many highly-talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized. And I think we can't afford to go on that way.” Education isn’t something that should be squandered by causing disinterest to their students, it should on the other hand be something that each person benefits from in their own way. Line Dalile (2012) states in regards to students that “You learned to live in a rotten environment. You were bullied, made fun of, and you had this teacher that told you to stop dreaming and live in reality. So what did you learn at school? You learned to stop questioning the world, to go with the flow, and that there’s only one right answer to each question.” This goes on to show a student's eventual discontent with all things related to school, killing the curiosity and hope children have within them,