Creativity Crisis?

     A week ago in ROGATE, we read an artical called "The Creativity Crisis".  This article talked about how creativity is declining in schools and what we can do to fix it.  This is what I think. 
     Creativity crisis?  What the heck is going on?  What happened to the Steve Jobs in our society?  Can we save our society from eventually having no creativity at all? 
     The creativity crisis is what the experts call a decline in society's creativity.  Research shows that American creativity is declining.  However, other countries' level of creativity is not.  What are they doing that they can keep their creativity?  Can creativity be taught?
     According to Ted Schwarzrock, the accepted definition of creativity is production of something original and useful.  America has created things that are original and useful, so why do people say our creativity is declining?  It starts with our education system.  Our country's public schools use a system of teaching that does not foster creativity.  Other countries, such as China, are fostering creativity in their schools by doing away with the "drill and kill" system.  This means that teachers teach a subject, drill it into your head, then give you a test and never mention the subject again.  Where's the creativity there?  Anyway, we need to to foster creativity in our schools.  The hard part is how to teach creativity.  According to the article, human beings can actually train their minds to use the equal parts convergent and divergent thinking requires.  I think that creativity can be taught if done the right way.  In sixth grade, I was making a poster.  The teacher thought it was not creative enough; that I could do more with it.  She said to be creative.  I was like WHAT?  So I went back to my desk, and told myself to think harder and come up with creative ideas.  It worked.
     We also watched a Ted talk by Sir Ken Robinson, who talked about how schools are killing creativity.  Robinson said that we all have extraodinary talent, but our education system kills it.  The educators aren't concerned about our minds, they are concerned about our amount of knowledge.  I agree with this.  My sixth grade pre-algebra teacher introduced a way to do a word problem, and I thought of a way to do it differently.  He said in that annoying teacher voice, "You have to do it this way or it'll never work."  My teacher was actually pretty awesome (for a teacher) but I was sooo mad.  My way actually worked!  Anyway, Robinson also said that we do not grow into creativity, we are actually educated out of is.  This is so true.  The article said that toddlers ask about 100 questions a day.     This is because toddlers always want to know the whos, whats, and whys to EVERYTHING.  Robinson also said that schools are teaching kids that it is not ok to be wrong.  Kids are so afraid of being wrong, they never take risks, therefore never using their creativity.
     In conclusion, America is suffering a decline in creativity, and unless we change our education system, we will continue to fall into a state of no creativity.  This would not only hurt our society physically, but it would make for a very dull world.  That's it for now.  Thanks for reading!