School promotes "correctness" over "creativity"

Schools promote "correctness" over "creativity". This is something that i believe to be true of all schools. I believe that every student would have thought to himself at some point in time that the activities in school were truly mundane and they wanted to do something else, something different from what was usually done. However, I feel that this urge of expressing one's "creativity" has slowly gone away, and has been replaced with a sole desire of obtaining "correctness" in everything we do in in school. This is clearly because if the school's promotion of "correctness" over "creativity".

A simple yet clear example would be one commonly seen in classrooms. Whenever an assignment is given, students would surely ask if the assignment would be graded or not, whether their performance in that piece of work would affect their results. I feel that the reason for this would be that students want to know how much effort they would need to put into that work, or how much "correctness" there should be in it. Students worry about this because they are penalized for not keeping to a standard, politically correct answer to the questions. Students do not want to have creativity in their work, but instead "correctness". This attitude that students take towards the work given to them by the school is clearly a result of the heavy promotion of "correctness" by the school. Such attitudes that students may take will stifle their creativity, and eventually lead to a scenario where students will only be concerned about how "correct" their work is, and not bother about inputting their own creativity into it, worried that it might lead to bad grades. Such attitudes that students take are troubling.

Of course, there are still instances where students can show their creativity. In projects given by the school, students are given chances to show creativity in their work. Grading of these projects would not follow as strictly to standards as other assignments and would be considered to be less "correct" as teachers can judge the student's work based on the creativity students put into it. However, there are not many of such projects and some may not even allow students to express their full creativity. Even when such projects are given to students, the creativity that they put in may seem forced. After all, there are only one or two projects given for each subject in an entire year, and students would be more used to providing "correct" answers, rather than expressing their creativity in work. This lack of opportunities will lead to students having forced creativity and the only way to solve this would be to have the school promote more creativity in the assignments they give.

The lack of opportunities to show one's creativity is because of the school's emphasis on "correctness" in the student's work. Hence i feel that schools should not promote "correctness" over "creativity" and aim to maintain a balance by creating more opportunities to express one's creativity for students.

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