My one Big Post on Creativity (edit: was my big post now just a rant on creativity in education)

Good evening all this is my one great big entry about creativity, I decided to opt out of the many small ones as well I find it hard enough to start posts so this way I only have to do it once, (well thrice if you include the previous posts). Previously I’ve looked at both the definitions and the cognitive/psychological studies on creativity but personally I find that all rather boring so in this post its just really going too be my ramblings about what I feel about creativity, what it is and who possess it.
Creativity is in all of us, I spoke about how everyone posses it in previous posts so I wont repeat my self to take up space however tempting it is. But after attending the various lectures and talks on creativity throughout the year I have developed my own views on creativity. To start with I will describe my views about peoples take on creativity and what is or isn’t creative. Almost any aspect of life in which a person undertakes something can be describes as being creative. But it’s the fine line between being creative and being academic that some people, especially older generations find hard to see any sort of crossover. I certainly know that when I was growing up academic subjects were pushed far more that creative ones. My dad couldn’t care less if I was doing poor in art but as long as my maths, science and English was ok I was allowed to go on happily with out getting a serious beatdown, I say beatdown it was more verbally than physically, ok all verbally but it was still as hard as any smack round the face. My maths and science were generally good but as you can probably tell from my blog my English was pretty sub par. Anyway the point I’m trying to make here is that when I was at school art was never pushed it was always a choice and it took me a long while to discover my passion for it. I would like to think how developed my skills would be now if it had been more common in my earlier years or how much I would resent it now and probably be working full time at Tesco’s if that were the case. Speaking to elders as well confirmed what I thought about the older generations. When my dad was at school art was barely an options let alone dance or drama, people who dropped out to pursue these lines were generally considered “fags”.
Now however I think the system is improving however it is nowhere near the standard it should be. I can understand how hard it is to have creative courses in the curriculum, because they are notoriously hard to mark standards. When I did art at A-levels I admit I failed and it wasn’t because of my lack of skill but it was the fact that 40% of the course structure was jus pure writing, analytical and basically the ability to chat utter bolocks about a piece of work which is a concept I could never get to grips with, saying shit like, why did the artist use green for the ground, could be because of his envy with the world, no its because grass is generally fucking green, I’m sure that’s why he painted it that colour, sorry about the language but hey I failed because of this so I have every right to be angry. Well out of nothing I have got on to creativity in education and on this subject I have come across a very interesting set of notes published by a professor Ken Robinson about how he wants to promote creativity in education clickHERE for these notes, it’s a pretty long read and I have to admit I didn’t read it all but he does put forward some interesting points about how important creativity is in the school system in the U.K. In conclusion to the creativity in education part of this I feel that it does need to be pushed in schools from an early age and let children find something they love and have a particular talent at before maths and English is pushed on them at a higher level and I think this will stop a lot of children resenting school, be it music, drama, art, sports, dance or indeed maths, science or English it would defiantly help the state of the schools in this country. Well at the beginning I said this was going to be one long blog but I feel I have covered one topic in enough detail to post this, next one will be up shortly.