I haven't really thought about this until recently now that I'm more involved in art in education and how valuable it is. In hindsight I can see that the way schools train kids to sit down, be quiet, and spew out memorized information is ok, but it's only half of the "solution." It's great that kids have structure, goals, and good study habits, but it is equally important to have kids be active, engaged, creative, and expressive. I am doing my O&P at a high school and I had a student tell me that she hates the class and thinks art is stupid.
Of course I was disappointed and saddened that someone would, in a way, say that they hated expressing themselves. To me it was a clear example of how "kids are 'educated' out of creativity because they become afraid of making mistakes."
It was this kind of attitude that really sparked my interest in looking up on the importance of not only education but art/creativity in education. A really good speaker on education that I found on the internet is a man named Sir Ken Robinson. He speaks a lot about education and the youtube video that I watched he said/paraphrased Picasso and he said(ish), "All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up."
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