Education and creativity have the same status!

 Education and creativity have the same status! 

Education is curriculum oriented and thinking out of the box is considered a crime by many teachers. Children are creative and innovative in nature. Our education broke the wings of our children’s imagination and creativity to a certain extent. As a teacher, I couldn't encourage my students to think out of syllabuses in my early times of my teaching career. But later I came to know that education is just a framework and one has to build on it by himself. Life orientation should be given more importance than just delivering the curriculum objectives. 

Arts and science are not considered interdisciplinary in the olden days. When I learned it was similar, but the present curriculum in Kerala Syllabus even teaches maths teachers to dance and teach especially in the case of primary school students. It has an extension in the upper primary too. It was difficult for many teachers to accept the change. As wild comments, teachers are eloquent to change; they are stubborn to adopt changes.

Creativity is as important as literacy. Creativity can fetch success even if he/she is not literate. A literate can not achieve more than a degree if he fails to think out of the box. Make your cup of tea not consume what you have offered freely. If you suppress the creativity in childhood we really broke the child or created a rebel. Don't make a mass to agree, make a mass to think logical and if needs to disagree. 

Build on the foundation is essential for anything to last long. A sort of foundation should be given to the children and make them fry to fly in their imagination, creativity and innovation. A really intelligent person would find difficulty with the curriculum which is not at all flexible. An extraordinary student is actually a headache for a normal teacher unless she has the orientation to guide the child properly. 

I like to be in the shoes of Sir Ken Robinson in connection with academic inflation. All are graduates and they do not find a job; they masters and even not. As older times if one possesses a degree he/she is armed with a job. A master or even a PhD holder working as an accountant just thinks of such a pathetic situation. On the other hand, a dropout with celebrity status. our education has broken wings of imagination and creativity, if one can not accept it he comes out of it and touches the peak of his/her excellence and fame.  

Our education made Commons and not excellence.NEP 2020 has a vision of bringing out excellence and thinking out of the box all this comes in front of the stabon teachers,  so I doubt the success of the NEP 2020.   A shoe fit for you looks great and don't ask me to be in that shoe. This is the actual problem with the education system. 

A teacher can make or break a child. The education system in general should undergo changes every day as new information occurs. Teachers should prompt out of box thinking and the teacher himself/ herself too. Don't form commons; bring out the excellence from oneself. An interdisciplinary approach and life orientation into the curriculum would make miracles in this realm. Sir Ken Robinson frankly told this many of us to have similar feelings but not expressed yet.