School Promotes "Correctness" Over "Creativity"

There are many successful people in this world, and statistics has shown that perhaps three out of four of them only became successful through their creativeness. A few examples are well known people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or even Thomas Edison. If not for creativity, computers, Ipods or a basic light bulb would probably not have existed. In recent times, schools has started to promote "correctness" over "creativity". They feel that it is much more important to do something everyone expects so that it is most likely right rather than doing something totally different which the result could turn out to be much better. I, with this is mind, feel that creativity should be promoted over correctness.

The lack of promoting creativeness would affect the student’s education in the later years. Even though there are certain subjects such as mathematics which needs only "correctness" to do well, many other subjects need much more creativity to score well in. Take literature as an example. Without the student’s creative ideas, there is no way that he or she would be able to write a good essay or poem. The school can teach the students all the usual steps of writing a poem, even so; only with the students own creativity would he be able to succeed as an excellent writer. If the school continues to encourage the students to follow the usual procedure of learning, there would be very little chance that the students can learn to break of from the rest and excel in the subject. This would definitely affect the student’s education as they would be stuck with the rest without being able to do something totally different. Therefore, this is one of the reasons why creativity should be promoted over correctness.

Also, creativity encourages the students to have a different perspective in life. When the school promotes correctness, the students would assume that everything has to be done perfectly and in that particular order. Life would then be extremely boring as students would be doing every single thing the same. There would be no need for them to rack up their brains in order to think of something completely different from what they usually do. Is this what we want from the students when they grow up? In contrast, with creativity being taught to the students, they would be able to understand more about life and how to change the usual things to become better. For example, students could have more innovative ideas in making objects that could help the society improve. How do you think the broom was invented? If everyone would continue to clean the floor with their bare hands without thinking of a more innovative idea to quicken things up, the broom would have never been invented. Thus, with creativity, the students would be able to look at things in a different way without being bored of doing the usual stuffs.

In conclusion, based on my explanation above, I truly feel that creativity should be promoted over correctness. Life can never be able to move forward, technology would never be advanced, and there would be no Noble Prize winners without creativity. If correctness continues to be promoted over creativity, students would grow up to be unable to cope with the advancing challenges as they would not be able to think of ideas to overcome the obstacles. So, would you still want “correctness” to be promoted over the wonders of “creativity”?

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