Does anyone else think that schools are grossly unfair for the creative individual? Schools focus mostly on three forms of intelligence; logical, linguistic and bodily, which are, undoubtedly important. But what about other intelligences? What about music, or art or writing?
I remember in school my classmates would always complain about having to write one poem or short story a year... A YEAR!
“It’s not fair, some people just can’t write a poem,” they would say. And while the assumption that some people just can’t write is very true, the part about it being unfair is not. Some people just can’t write a good essay either. Why is it so bad to give credit to the creative kid?
What about music? I don’t know about you, but in my music class, we would stand around a piano, singing old folk songs from ancient duotangs. It was brutal. I won’t even get started about art.
Things get better once you get to highschool, you have more options and better resources but by then people aren’t interested. Why should they be? They’ve seen for years that the arts aren’t important or valued and so they don’t care.
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