Creativity lacking in public school system

UDGE a fish by its ability to climb a tree and it will live the rest of its life believing that it’s stupid.
Don’t you realise that our education system is turning our children into robots?
It is causing our kids to swim upstream, never truly discovering their gifts; thinking they are stupid, believing they are useless?
I strongly feel that our methodologies in schools are demolishing creativity. Students have lost their capacity of creation simply because our teaching methods don’t stimulate innovation and creativity; yet it claims to prepare students for the future.
Remember being a kid and wanting to play around?
No one told you how to use your imagination or taught you how to be creative.
You played with LEGOS. You pretended you were an astronaut and imagined traveling in space.
Being naturally creative, you asked questions like “Why is the grass green?” and “Are we alone?” – questions no wise man could answer.
Then came school – a child’s worst nightmare.
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.
The “whys” you have always wanted to ask are never on the test, and they are omitted from the curriculum.
Those students who got A’s now believe they’re highly talented and artistic, but those who got an F ….well, they start to think they are losers and their work is rubbish.
Creativity isn’t a test to take, a skill to learn, or a programme to develop. Creativity is seeing things in new ways, breaking barriers that stood in front of you for some time.
Creativity is the art of hearing a song that has never been written or seeing a work of art on empty canvas. Its essence is in its freshness and the ability to make dreams come to life.

Norman Gabu, Via email