Final Draft for Argumentative Paper

Pricilla Mosiello

Megan Keaton        

English 112             

2 May 2013

                                                            Creativity in School        

The schools are killing creativity for students. In every field of education and work force, our future should be provided with purpose and meaning. Creativity comes to people’s minds as arts, but it’s really about how students are taught based on school curriculum. Many people believe it’s the individual teachers, schools, or principals that are causing the problems for students to have less creativity. Schools are not producing enough creative people to be recognized as different. A student needs to have a mind that is expanded beyond imagination. Creativity is viewed as having necessary skills with attitudes and minds that are essential to future success. Having creativity in schools gives people an opportunity to discover talents and strengths for what their passion may be. It keeps a student’s mind set to influence involvement from real challenges of life.

  However, most people believe that students are not losing focus from narrow assignments, and a standardized curriculum should be the expectation of success for a student. People feel students in school should still be taught by the 19^th century model assessments. In other words, schools have nothing to do with creativity levels within individual students. Many schools are taught on the 19 century curriculum that’s gives nothing but success for students. A creative person has to let it come naturally with experiences they have seen, it can’t be expressed or taught in schools by teachers, it’s something students just have to let come naturally. Creativity is the key to education in its fullest sense and to the solution of mankind’s most serious problems. (Fasko 320).  To avoid any problems in the future, we should take into consideration the importance of expanding a creative process for students in school. 

A primary goal for schools is to help clarify meanings that are associated with the term of creativity.  All across the world, collective definitions and perceptions about the myths of creativity have yet produced an uneven understanding of what it means to be a creative person.  To help identify some observable processes for creativity is associated with the problems in our current educational context. The term creativity is so ill- defined, and fuzzy that no common agreement exists into its meaning. Creativity remains as an elusive concept, where discussion or expressions of the term may come from the understanding as a thought. Society needs to give students, all ages a balanced rounded education that prepares them for their future success.  Only a few people will be able to earn a living by relying on arts, and children need to understand this, but it’s more about doing something someone enjoys than being miserable.  Only a handful of people make a decent living from arts, but they are essential into becoming more well-rounded human beings, that are capable of enjoying life, rather than being a robot machine. (Fasko 320).

Understandably, a major problem about creativity is the organization of education in countries. The industrial economy is built to develop the needs of individuals that have simply not suited the 21^st century. Whether students are in the UK, Europe, USA, or Asia school systems consistently fail to cultivate creativity.  They acknowledgement of creativity gives multiple types of intelligence, causing people to be out of step with the real life challenges. People are facing an ever-changing world that has been transformed by digital technology, which has taken away from the creative part of life. Education assessment systems need an overhaul because most are based on tests and numerical grades, which are rooted in the idea of standardization. It must be recognized that success of a school comes down to great teaching. Many teachers have become discouraged because their own creativity is being stressed by the standard curriculum they have to follow. According to author Ken Robinson, he points out arts are vitally important to education, and it doesn’t just define creativity as artistic terms. It is the process of having an original idea that has value. Creativity gives people the essential future success of people, companies and communities in the 21^st century. 

However, schools should not nurture creativity and other skills for intelligence. There are a number of countries who don’t fostering creativity and critical thinking as the next education challenge. Traditional grades and creativity may no longer sacrifice the workforce with skills that are needed to fuel the economic growth. Many schools have teachers under pressure to get so much work completed, and taught to a student in such a little amount of time. Teachers really don’t have enough time to stimulate creativity, or have contact with each student individually. Formal education is helping students develop abilities for work and creative thinking in many ways that actually already suppresses creativity. Nothing more should be pushed as an issue or concern about creativity in schools for students because the standardized curriculum is the right way for students to learn by. It has been around for many generations that have ages of production to increases successfully, therefore nothing has to be a concern about creativity in schools for the students.

Creativity is more important in schools than ever before in history. Students will be able to learn a deeper structure of knowledge linking everything together in a creative way. To let the mind go beyond existence to transfer new situations that never existed before, is a sustained positive impact for students to have future success, in the workforce and school around the world. Experience with discovery learning enhances creative performance by forcing the learner to manipulate the environment and produce new ideas. (Lancrin 5). Creativity is the key to education in its fullest sense, and to the solution of man kind’s most serious problems. (Lancrin 5).  Creativity in schools gives students advantages to learn with a better understanding. Students with restless minds and bodies are far from being cultivated with energy and curiosity; because of ignored sacrifices that fall behind them later on. There are important ideas and solutions that can show growth between students learning with creativity that’s has helped improved sacrfices towards this matter. That’s why it doesn’t matter what side a person may or may not agree with, because it’s up to the students and schools to push forward creative skills.  Authors believe there is a need for creativity courses in teacher’s education programs. In fact, Hennessey and Amabile found that extrinsic constraints, which are factors external to the specific task, could deserve intrinsic motivation and thus decrease creativity. ( Fasko 11).  We’re not just here to earn a living, obviously we need to do that, but we also need to have a life too, and we need lives with purpose and meaning. To me that mean’s discovering what your strengths are and talents are and what your passion may be. (Robinson 8).

Schools are not killing the creativity levels within students. Schools do not need to let students mind go beyond imagination. The level of achievements comes from true experiences within a person. Creativity can’t just be turned into a curriculum study, because no other generation seen it as a major issue.  The creativity in schools is not being killed for students because; the standardized education curriculum is helping develop people’s ability for work and real life skills. Education in this generation is being suppressed by a transformed world of technology, which makes the creativeness from a person’s mind expand into new knowledge they didn’t know before. 

Schools systems are facing an ever- changing revolution that has been transformed cultivatable in many ways. A person’s mind and creativity level is a valuable education option that someone may or may not agree with.  It’s up to a person to decide for themselves, if the creativity skills and abilities in important in the education programs as it is to the students.  Every person is educated in a different way around the world. Creativity emerges when people generate many different possible answers rather than rushing to the one right answer. (Sawyer 3).

A student’s path for creativity is built from hard work and effort towards a situation. Each individual, school, or teacher will find their own way to stimulate creativity. The curriculum should be strict, and not consist of creative thinking skills towards solving a problem in school.  A teacher that is under pressure will find a way back to the surface alone, teaching useful learning tools for a student’s future success. The thinking creative process is more than important enough to take into consideration about. The creative process connects new skills, and lets the mind go beyond existing knowledge. If school becomes unexcited it will cause students to lose sight, and motivation towards their dreams or goals.  

Procedures of steps to enforce creativity awareness will be provided from schools around the world.  A speech and television ads so people can get different views on why creativity is so important within students. Behaviors in classrooms will be recorded and compared to see if the results improve within students.  Some producers agreed to advertise creativity for students within schools worldwide. Creativity doesn’t need to be ignored because that will just cause more terrible consequences for the students within these schools. Including creativity and other skills for innovation in national curriculum is a helpful starting point for them to be taken seriously in school. (Lancrin 2).

The schools that kill creativity rather than enforce it are not a good way to maintain levels of achievements for a student. Meanwhile, schools can establish how important creativity is and take action to focus on the future. All schools and board of education will come together as a team, to hold a meeting concerning useful methods to teach creativity within work ethics. One teacher and principal from each school worldwide will be holding a meeting with concerns for creative styles. Teachers and principals are coming together from other countries worldwide to settle compromises towards a solution for student’s creativity. Creativity within a student should not be ignored for any particular reason. Any information should be gathered on students in classrooms whose behavior may change from the stimulation of creative thinking. The students with restless minds and bodies are the ones who never become cultivated and make creativity seem less dull. Advertisements and news channels are willing to help provide support for the idea of creativity to make schools become brighter, and give opportunities to students for better success in the field of economy growth. Several events will bring about the change that demonstrates creativity in school for students.  The challenge and journey ahead is very long encouraging many schools to take action for students learning process throughout the years.

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Fasko, Daniel. “Education and Creativity.” Creativity Research Journal 13 (2000-2001): 317-327. Print.

Lancrin, Stephan V. “Creativity in schools: What countries do or could do.” Education Today OCED. Web. 30 January 2013

Louv, Richard. Last Child In The Woods Saving Our Children From Nature- Deficit Disorder. North Carolina: Thomas Allen, 2005. Print.

Robinson, Ken. “Education Today.” Do schools really kill creativity? 13 (2005): 16+ Minnis Journals Pty. Ltd. Web. 24 March 2013.

Sawyer, Keith R. “Schools That Foster Creativity.” N.P., 8 December 2012. Web. 21 March 2013