Art has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Even as a toddler, I had my own personal art supplies stowed away in some cabinets at my grandparent’s house. For the Kindergarden “what do you want to be when you grow up” parade, my mother splotched some paint on one of my dad’s old shirts, and I wore that, holding a paintbrush and a palate in my tiny fingers. As children, a lot of kids bounce around about what they want to do when they finally have to leave college, and some really don’t even have any sort of idea. But, for me, I’ve wanted to be an artist since I was able to put pencil to paper.
That being said, art in education is a huge part of my life.
In elementary school, there was a once a week, half an hour art class. There was also a once a week, half an hour music class, and a once a week, half an hour gym class; everything was equal, at least in extracurricular activities. I find this worthy, because, as children, our “creativity” hasn’t been “taken away” yet.
It’s very hard to decide whether art, or any extracurricular activity should be extended, because, even though art it a big part of me, it could not be a big part of someone else. What Ken Robinson said, however, is very, very, scarily true.
The world is losing its ability to think creatively.
Later on in life, we’re relying too much on thinking that our teachers know the answer to everything, and refuse to think for ourselves. I try to think of myself as creative, because I love writing too, and isn’t coming up for story ideas a form of creativity? But even I admit to raising my hand when I don’t know something, instead of taking two seconds to try and figure it out myself.
Art is a way to think creatively; to open up your brain to new heights. You have to look inside yourself as well; you have to think of your own ideas.
What should I make? What should I make it of? And why do I want to make it?
This is a form of creativity.
Learning math and science and our history is important in an everyday human’s mind, but so it thinking for yourself. I don’t think that we should make art a class that everyone has to take, because, like I mentioned before, I like art, but everybody else might not. I think that we should try to incooperate creativity into all of our other everyday classes.
I think my geometry teacher is a perfect example of this. At the beginning of each day, she gives us a warm-up. Almost every single time, I have no idea how to solve the problem. The first time I was faced with this, I left my paper blank, waiting for her explanation. But that wasn’t the point. She wanted us to try it, to give it our all, and to tell her what we thought we should do in order to solve the puzzle, then, if we were wrong, she would then explain the correct way to the solution.
I think this is what Ken Robinson was looking for, at least in a sense.
And I think this is creativity.
That being said, art in education is a huge part of my life.
In elementary school, there was a once a week, half an hour art class. There was also a once a week, half an hour music class, and a once a week, half an hour gym class; everything was equal, at least in extracurricular activities. I find this worthy, because, as children, our “creativity” hasn’t been “taken away” yet.
It’s very hard to decide whether art, or any extracurricular activity should be extended, because, even though art it a big part of me, it could not be a big part of someone else. What Ken Robinson said, however, is very, very, scarily true.
The world is losing its ability to think creatively.
Later on in life, we’re relying too much on thinking that our teachers know the answer to everything, and refuse to think for ourselves. I try to think of myself as creative, because I love writing too, and isn’t coming up for story ideas a form of creativity? But even I admit to raising my hand when I don’t know something, instead of taking two seconds to try and figure it out myself.
Art is a way to think creatively; to open up your brain to new heights. You have to look inside yourself as well; you have to think of your own ideas.
What should I make? What should I make it of? And why do I want to make it?
This is a form of creativity.
Learning math and science and our history is important in an everyday human’s mind, but so it thinking for yourself. I don’t think that we should make art a class that everyone has to take, because, like I mentioned before, I like art, but everybody else might not. I think that we should try to incooperate creativity into all of our other everyday classes.
I think my geometry teacher is a perfect example of this. At the beginning of each day, she gives us a warm-up. Almost every single time, I have no idea how to solve the problem. The first time I was faced with this, I left my paper blank, waiting for her explanation. But that wasn’t the point. She wanted us to try it, to give it our all, and to tell her what we thought we should do in order to solve the puzzle, then, if we were wrong, she would then explain the correct way to the solution.
I think this is what Ken Robinson was looking for, at least in a sense.
And I think this is creativity.