陜西 楊代娣

Children in elementary school have an unbelievable capacity for imagination:making up games on the playground,drawing a picture of the North Pole,or even giving social lives to stuffed animals.This type of imagination leads to passion,innovation,and creativity that gradually disappear through years of schooling.

Kids don't fear the consequences of being creative.Kids aren't afraid of being told they're wrong.If you tell them they're wrong,you've just entered a completely illogical argument with a 5-year-old that you will not win.Their imagination will develop fast.On the other hand,we adults have lost the capacity to understand how to be wrong and be prepared to continue using creativity.

If you ask people what they think creativity is,maybe they'll say that it's the ability to draw a picture without any clues.Maybe it's writing a song on an instrument they know how to play,or writing a fictional story for their English class.

To me,creativity is a bit different.I don't have the ability to do any of those things.I never have,and I most likely never will.I feel that I got educated out of my creativity,yet I'm expected to just continue to have this ability of creativity on demand in class.It's like schools understand they are killing creativity,yet continuously ask students to have such talents despite their inability to provide the environment to enhance this ability.

I ask the students and teachers at schools:Is this how we want to measure creativity?My definition of creativity is the ability to have unforced,valuable,original ideas that connect different perspectives.Creativity is a powerful force,yet forced creativity has the power to kill creativity.

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