Creativity Killer

Almost every career or job today requires creativity – the ability to generate unique, innovative, and effective solutions or ideas for roadblocks or similar. Whether it be an engineer that needs to approach designing a bridge from a new angle because the supports aren’t stong enough or a doctor that needs to diagnose and treat complex cases that require unique solutions, not in standard procedure or even a crime scene investigator (CSI) that needs to approach the crime scene with a new approach. But contrary to all the needs for a creative mindset in the workforce and in life, the education system does not foster creativity and actually inhibits the development of creative abilities.

The standard dogma of secondary education revolves around assigning students a bunch of assignments with strict rules – “busy work” – that don’t give students the ability to use their creative skills. To make matters worse, teachers punish students with bad grades for thinking outside the box and not adhering to the strict outline they provided them while reinforcing the behavior of not using creative skills by rewarding the students for not thinking outside the box. Over time, the education system eliminates creativity from students minds, turning the students into robots that all think and approach every situation the same exact way. In turn, removing the students individuality and harming the students chances of even getting a job once they graduate or becoming successful in their careers; because the worlds most successful entrepreneurs and innovators are all some of the most creative people on the planet.