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The Death of Creativity
Column
By
Ayushi Nagalia
Since the very day a child is born, the world around starts to contemplate what her
future is going to be like, what she would grow up to be like, what skills and talents
she would develop as an adult and what education system and stream she would
follow. From the very beginning, only two fuels run the human mind; it’s capability
to discover understand the things that already exist, and its ability to invent. Intelli-
gence and creativity are the two things which if used together, can take a person to
great heights. However, creativity always has the upper hand. Nothing in this world
has ever been created without a certain level of creative curiosity and the will to
take risks and do things never done before. While we, as a society are correct about
the fact that education is the key to enhance one’s intelligence and logical reason-
ing, it is most unfortunate that we also believe that education also enhances our cre-
ative skills and capacities. No such education system exists in the entire world that
can successfully trigger a person’s creativity. If anything, education grabs creativity
by the neck and squeezes it hard enough to exhaust it completely. The future is un-
predictable. Nobody knows what a person might have to do after 10 years. The edu-
cation system is vested in taking us into a future we cannot grasp. We don’t know
what the world is going to be like in few years, yet, we are taught how to function
in the future. Such dictating education system sucks the children’s ability to imag-
ine what the future is going to be like; it destroys their will to do something