Creativity. What is it?

 What is creativity? Creativity means "the state of being creative." Then what does creative mean? In Webster's Dictionary for Students, creative means "able to create new and original things." However, do students have ability to create something new nowadays? The main source of the problem regarding creativeness is today's school education system.


 To begin with, the school's education system hinders students' creativity. In schools, what do we learn? Students learn same subjects more focused on academic subjects such as Math, Korean, and English. Most of the people believe that students have to be good at academic subjects in order to live a successful life when they grow up. However, there are a lot of students who have great talents at non-academic subjects. Then, it would be better for those students to focus more on the other subjects they are actually great at. For example, students who are good at sports should practice sports at schools beginning from elementary school while ones who are good at academic subjects should study at class. Thus, education kills students' abilities and creativeness because of the wrong education system.


 Furthermore, in a sense that children are more imaginative than adults, the truth that education lowers ability of being creative can be inferred. Students are forced to sit and study the same subjects every day. There are seldom chances of drawing and singing which help increase students' abilities of being original. For instance, when children do not go to school and play at home, they have a lot of curiosity and pick up things to make a picture or form a shape. However, as they go to schools and start to lose chances of playing, their ability to be creative decreases. At last, when they become adults, their lives are no fun at all. They wake up, go to work, come back home, and sleep. This boring pattern of life repeats over and over and they even do not care much about it. To conclude, children grow up to be uncreative.


 Lastly, education systems have to be changed in order to make students become creative especially in Korea. In Korea, parents are always forcing their children to study if they want to live successful lives in the future. Students live listlessly because they are busy going to academies or study rooms believing what their parents say. However, when walking around the streets, it is hard to see academies about music or physical education for students. For example, when you ask a walking student on a street "what academies do you go?" Then the answer would be "Math, Korean, Physics, English, Chinese, and Economics." Thesedays, students are studying machines. If the society wants the students to be creative, the society should change. The schools should make creativity classes for students.

 To sum up, I agree to the idea of Ken Robinson since it is obvious that education kills creativeness of students. To make students more creative, the society has to change greatly. It is time to get out of the traditional minds and try some changes for our bright future.

As a writer

 The first time I got this assignment, I thought that this assignment does not make sense. Since I do not exactly know what my writing style is, I thought that this assignment is going to be really demanding. First, I read through my writings but I could not find much information since I erased them all. So, I read all the paperback writings I did. I found out that all my writing styles are adapted to TOEFL writings. I felt kind of bad since I felt like I did not have my own style of writing. However, I tried to think positively and I found out that if I am adapted to TOEFL, I will be able to write essays that need firm structures easily. Thus, I think that my strong point about writing is that I can write formal essays easily.
 What I need to improve is grammar and my example. All the time I write, I cannot easily think about what examples I should write to make my writing more supportive. After thinking for a long time, I come up with stupid ideas about example even which I think is ridiculous. Also, about the grammar, after I write, I proofread and I cannot find mistakes usually. However, when the teachers correct my writings, I make a lot of mistakes about grammar.
 The ultimate goal about writing for me is to get out of TOEFL writing. I want to achieve this goal because I feel like I am stuck with this writing style.
 The writing I am most proud of is the writing I wrote when I was 7. I like this writing the most since this writing makes me feel a lot about my past. First, I felt that I was really young at that time. This is because I wrote in my writing “I played with my friend. It was fun.” I wrote this simple sentence just for my diary. I think it is kind of fun to say, but I felt that this writing is very clean from the world. I felt that I was really happy back then. After reading this, I looked about my present state. I felt very ashamed of myself because I have made so many mistakes and I know that I am a very bad person now. I set my goal to become a very clean and nice person to everyone.
 What I want from this class is fun. I do not want just fun. I want to learn about writing and how to improve on my writing and view of reading. I really expect to raise my writing and English ability this semester and I am taking a lot of English courses such and English literature. Also, what I do not want from this class is too much work to be honest. I know I should not be saying this kind of words, but since you told me to be honest!!! Lastly, I really want to be very friendly with the class and have a lot of fun throughout this semester.