Do Schools Kill Creativity?

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inventionaddict | February 13th, 2010 | creativity

It’s my birthday so I’m trying to not work. Can’t help it.

Some day I hope to attend the TED Conference. Here’s a thought provoking video. A tad long and the humor may be a bit dry but there are some gems in there.

Here are a few notes I jotted down:

Teaching creativity is as important as literacy.
Children are not frightened to be wrong. If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.
Schools stigmatize mistakes.
Schools educate creativity out of us.
Definition of creativity: The process of having original ideas that have value.

Thank you for reading. Comments are welcome and encouraged. Let me know what you think.

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Stephen Bozzone

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I don’t usually comment on my own posts but this is on my mind.

The part of the video that keeps sticking with me is “not being afraid to make a mistake”. Well, I made at least two this week with my business.

Live and learn from it but you have to DO something. Take action.
http://www.taniareynaert.com Tania

I agree that school does this. Of the many things I remember from myself and my children, the one with my neice pops into mind. She had colored her picture the way she saw it. The teacher asked her what color is the tree suppose to be? You colored it the wrong color.

Looking at my neice’s face drop, my sister spoke up to say that she liked the purple tree much more than the boring green ones which all looked alike.
My neice smiled and the teacher didn’t speak again…which was perfect

It’s amazing how much I have banged heads with teachers over allowing my children to be creative. There is no wrong as long as it turns out the way you invision it.

great post!

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