Education

How Our Educational System Kills Our Creative Instincts

Tue, 07/12/2011 - 15:47
Submitted by Betty Dodson

Summerhill is a drama serial inspired by a true story - you can watch the four part series on vimeo (sorry but they didn't enable embedding so you have to click the link).

The film shows the problems with how we perceive education. It's all based on authoritarian rules, rules, rules and kills off our creative instincts.

When I look back at my own education, grade school was fairly painless as I got to draw on the black board for all the different teachers; geography maps, different birds and plants and I even illustrated a few of the characters from Ivanhoe. As an undiagnosed dyslexic, reading and memorizing was nearly impossible but I was very talented at drawing whatever I could see or imagine.