As my fellow classmates have so excellently described in their blogs, Ken Robinson explains how modern schools are destroying the creativity of our children. Thanks to recent educational policies and the focus on right/wrong (and nothing in between), our schools have limited kids' learning to the "important" subjects: math, science, english, etc. But why can't music, art, or dance be important too? For many people out there those are what interests them the most and it is what they're best at. Is it fair that schools take away their best subjects because those aren't the "mainstream" ones? I'm willing to say we've all known people who didn't take those fine arts class because they feared not doing well in them so it would hinder their GPA and class rankings. One the flip side, I knew countless people who did not want to answer questions in class because of the fear of being wrong. This, quite frankly, seems stupid because we always hear those quotes that are along the lines of, "You can only learn by making mistakes." So why are we making our students afraid to learn?
Like everybody else has said, I don't want to be like that when I am teaching. I need to not put the importance on being right all the time, but on the process of getting an answer. Students need to know that it's ok to make mistakes, but not ok to not try. Students also need to know that math and science and english aren't everything. They should explore the "less important" subjects; not only because it will make them a more well-rounded person, but also that they could find what they are truely passionate about which could lead to them finding a job they love and contributing to society. Isn't that the purpose of school anyway?
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