Schools Kill Creativity

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   Tonya #

   It’s truly a sad state of affairs when schools want to drug our children just to fit within a mold that isn’t their true identity. My hope for the future would be that we stop producing cookie cutter kids and start promoting their individual gifts.

   February 20, 2010

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   Janice #

   It’s true. Creativity is something every child is born with. It’s up to the parents, or caretakers, to nuture this gift, not supress it. I think that why you see so many home schooled children excelling in so many different ways–they were encouraged to explore their creative bent. There’s a verse in the Bible that reads: Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. The training in a way he should go does not only mean training in the way most people think, that is: upstanding character, good manners, good morals, etc. It also means training a child in the gifts he received from God, his bent, such as giving, teaching, creative arts, working with his hands, nurturing (caring for other people, pets, etc), and many other gifts. Many children are forced into a mold that does not compliment their gifts. You see this in doctors and nurses who do not seem to like their profession–likely their parents or teachers forced them into this. It takes time, and really knowing a child to train them in their own special bent. Children who are trained in their bent are the adults who find joy in the work they do.

   February 21, 2010

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