Sit, Talk, Roll Over

From a very young age we are taught how to sit still, talk only when talked to, and to follow the rules. If we deny to follow or go against them we are punished. We are punished by making the smart people feel dumb, and the not so smart champions.We are forced to be produced in numbers, and types. We are forced to be what the education system and the government tell us we are supposed to be. We are the group that are not creative because we have had that beaten out of us along our school years. We are teenagers. We are the victims of the educational system.                  

 “The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”-Ken Robinson 

Today in class we had a discussion about how schools and the educational system is killing the creativity in children. In my opinion I agree with the side that said educational systems are killing creativity. The current education system was build in the industrial revolution which emphasizes the needs for English and math. It is the furthest thing from MODERN. 

As a student in the current education system I can tell you straight up that creativity is killed. If a student try to get creative or try something new, they will automatically be shut down and told to redo it properly. The best example I can give you is the Grade 10 Literacy test. All that the literacy test wants you to know is how to make an essay and prove your point in the most boring way, I really wish I knew that the first time i wrote it. I also gather from the people I talked to that the children that hated English and go by the standards easily got higher marks, and the people that enjoy English and are very creative were scored lower. 

No matter where you are in the world you will be told what to do, and how to do it. As student I hate this and honestly want to change the education system. But i face another problem, the problem of not knowing how to make a change. As students we are taught to sit, talk, and follow, but we were never told how to be a leader. We have no idea how to make a change. From the beginning we were taught to follow not lead. So when we are told to make a change how are we supposed to do it?