Creativity (week 20)

What role does creativity have today? Where does it come from? Where is it most used? Where is it taught?

Creativity is what built our world today. Its the day to day things that we use, like planes, cars, toasters etc etc. Some brilliant mind said "hey what if..." and those words lead to the objects we have and use today. Without creativity we would still be stuck in the stone ages, or even before then because we wouldnt of found stone and though of creative ways in how we can use it! See where im going with this?

However today creativity seems like its been push back, for example why are maths and science still more important than art or graphic design? Even in math you have to be creative. However Art intodays class rooms, or back when I was at school it still was being taught in the wrong ways in my opinion. I hated my art teacher at secondary school and the constraites she put on us. Like we could only paint a picture from a certain topic the teacher had set. How is that going to lead to creative and let the pubil express their ideas and emotions into something they dont understand properly or dont care for? Even when I found a topic that covered my areas of intrest in my final years at secondary school in my mock GCSEs (Also schools only seem to care for exams result these days) I will stil locked in a area i was alloud to use. The topic for the mock GSCEs we had to choose from were Eyptian art, Graffti (modern art or something) and a few others I cant remember.

However I was happy enough to choose the subject of graffti, I really enjoyed this "topic", however my teacher still didnt understand enough in this area. A friend of mine did an amazing piece using ths same "topic" as I. But still came under fire from the teacher as not being propper "art". Wait a minute! How can you classifly what is art and what isnt. So what I'm trying to say is even in a creative class, creativity is still being depressed and this sickens me. Why should people conform to ideas of another when they just want to experiment? If they did so would they be called mad? stupid? Da Vinci was probaly called mad when he created the diagrams for his "flying machines".

Heres a video which my current teach whos mad on the subject of creativity in schools showed me in class recently. Sir Ken Robinson talks about the subject, it opens your eyes! http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66

After watching this video again, I can clearly see what Sir Ken Robinson is talking about and how it related to my past education at first and secondary school. Creativity is being taughty wrongly or not even at all, its such an important aspect in day to day life.