The document discusses how modern educational systems discourage creativity in children. It argues that schools over-emphasize subjects like math and science due to the roots of education being in industrialism, when the goal was to create employees for a limited number of jobs. However, with more students graduating than ever before, creativity is as important a skill as literacy. For sustained success, there needs to be a critical reexamination of educational systems to encourage risk-taking and creativity instead of stigmatizing mistakes.

1. Do schools Kill Creativity?
-Nishant Joshi (PGP30026)

2. Children are inherently creative!

3. They are also the key to our future

4. We can’t predict the next 5 years how do we
plan to educate for the next 50 ?!

5. Creativity is as important as literacy!

6. It’s
absolutely
essential to
take a
chance or
risk and
creativity
stems from
this risk
taking
nature

7. You won’t take a
risk if you are
afraid of making a
mistake

8. Education systems stigmatize mistakes till we
stop even trying to take a chance

9. We don’t just grow
out of our
creativity…we are
Educated out of
Creativity!...
but Why?

10. The educational
hierarchy followed
around the
globe…why is this
so? Why aren’t
subjects like
Dance ever taught
full time?

11. Modern Educational
System has its roots in
Industrialism

12. The purpose of education
was to create employees and
then there were very few jobs

13. This led to subjects like
Math & Science being
given more importance
and hence the current
hierarchy

14. But this is no longer
the case!

15. According to UNESCO, more
students will graduate in the
next 30 years than since the
beginning of education

16. This is leading to Academic
Inflation where just having a
degree is no longer sufficient
guarantee of employment

17. We need to
rethink the
definition of
what is
intelligence?

18. Intelligence is
Diverse, Dynamic
and Distinct|

19. Creativity can
only come from
interaction of
various forms of
intelligence

20. For any kind of sustained
survival, a critical
reexamination of our
educational system is absolutely
critical