If you pass through the institute street in Korea, you might notice that you are seeing the word “creativity” in every thirty seconds. Yes, Korea is in the fever of creativity. Every mother wants to develop their child’s creativity and they are always looking for good academies which can raise their child to be a great creative child.
By the way, what does mean creativity, and why people are enthusiastic with it? First of all, creativity means the ability to think fresh, new and unoriginal ideas. And people believe society will need this kind of people, who is creative, in the future. Because, the present trend is concentrating on something that is new, and not typical, to be exactly different from just others. So that’s why many mothers in Korea are in the fever of academies, which raise creativity. As like this, since the power of creativity is increasing still now, and even the government is caring about this more and more seriously, Korea high school recently changed their ultimate goal for students. They said, they will raise creative students. And many people might not have any doubt about this. They would believe Korean education fits to creativity.
However, surprisingly, one man disagreed about this argument. Ken Robinson said schools kill creativity. He said that creativity comes from the various curiosities. But to be curious means easy to make mistakes or failures in something new. However, present schools educate students not to make any mistake in everything. Just be perfect. And this is what he is saying, contradiction. Schools are killing creativity. Schools want to develop student’s creativity but they educate student not to make mistakes. And secondly, he argued that nowadays, schools concentrate on how to make students to enter good universities, only. They say middle school or high school is just a sort of steps or process for entering good universities. But Robinson said this is totally incorrect way of education.
I agree for some part of his opinion, but some are not. First of all, I don’t agree about his opinion that he said school is killing creativity of students. I think schools are also working hard to find the ways to make students to be creative by diverse extra activities. And he said that the main reason is because school gives children the fixed idea that mistake is bad, so they just don’t challenge about something knew to not make any mistake. But, I think in this point, effects from parent or family would be bigger than schools. I think what makes students to think mistake is not good is because of their family or parent rather than school.
So I think we should not just blame school’s work. Also recently, schools are making variety extra activities that can grow children’s creativity. Those programs were made by professional experts, so it is very reliable and effective. We can trust school’s education.
Secondly, what I agreed about his argument was that, nowadays, schools usually set their ultimate goal for entering many students to good universities. And middle and high schools became a just process of preparing university entering. I also felt that, when I was in the middle school. My middle school 3rd grade advisor, who I respected much, used to say that, somehow my final goal is to enter good university, so let’s just be more patient. But I think we should change this kind of trend in Korea now. Middle or high schools should not be a place where preparing for university but they should be a place where students are able to find their talents and aptitudes. So school should prepare variety programs in education and should let them to feel free about it.
In conclusion, I think school should make a chance to introduce their way of education to their school parent so that they can know that schools are working hard to raise their child’s creativity. And middle and high schools should prepare variety activities for students so that they can find their own talents and aptitudes as soon as possible. Like I said, if schools try to find their bad points and to solve it or on the other hand, to prevent their good points, we will be able to expect a good education system in Korea.
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Good improvement from your last post. This font is very accessible. As for your essay, you raise some good points, and you are among the few to actually suggest that the schools are actually doing a decent job. I think they are as well, and they definitely do not "kill" creativity. But should we be so obsessed with getting into a good university at such a young age? It's sad that things have ended up that way. Kids should be more focused on learning and experiencing and finding their own path - which is exactly the strongest point in your essay.
답글삭제While you still have some grammar things to focus on (try not to start sentences with And or But), things have improved. One thing you will lose a point on though - where is the Ken Robinson video? You are supposed to post it with the essay. Keep up the good work.