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While it is true that fine arts programs and extracurricular activities offer the idea of creating, one must recognize that most activities are often catered around specific group overshadowing individual expression, the emphasis on academic achievement tends to undervalue creative thought, and the time constraints limit opportunities for personal pursuit.

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THESIS:

The essence of the Ted Talk propounds that creativity should be given the same status as literacy in education.

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 Though school deals with the cultivation of the minds of students in a multitude of ways, the education  system prioritizes  academics  and  neglects  the  development  of  creativity  in  students. 

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 Though school deals with the cultivation of the minds of students in a multitude of ways, the education  system prioritizes  academics  and  neglects  the  development  of  creativity  in  students. 

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Although some may argue that schools foster creativity by allowing fine art classes, schools don't allow for creativity and growth due to lack of freedom to explore nontraditional pathways as well as squashing the dreams already in place of these students.

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The education system’s utilization of rigidly structured academic policies limit and/or terminate creativity within youthful minds of society, leaving these minds to feel incompetent and contribute to the values of commodity from those implemented policies therefore leading to the worlds undoing.

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While it is true that schools have offered electives in certain career classes and also different extracurricular activities that students have the option to join, one must recognize that the education system has limited students freedom of expression, and increase the academic validations as well as prioritize standardized testing that a student lose focus on easily because there is a lack of interest shown from them.

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Schools diminish innovation and creative in students due to the usual lackluster nature of many schools fine arts programs.

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Schools kills creativity by offering courses that limit creative expression, overly critiquing students through grading, and imposing constant stress to perform, robbing the creative potential of learners.

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Creativity is challenging to the normality of the education system essentializing academic development.

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Although many schools prioritize art as well as education, systems stifle creativity and limit the potential of students by not offering or requiring student to take an art elective.

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Although some may argue that schools kill creativity due to the lack of options in relation to creativity, schools foster creativity because they introduce students to new experiences and allows for the exploration of new hobbies.

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In today’s version of school, there exists a big trend where the vibrant spirit of creativity is widely pushed out in favor of adherence to academic norms.

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Although schools offer several classes which require student creativity such as art, English, and writing classes, schools do not encourage the development and maintenance of creativity in students because of their focus on the core subjects and their stigmatization of students who don’t align with those subjects.

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Though there are some that may back the idea schools cultivate creativity on merits of exposure, I and many others strongly agree that since schools instill a grading system and a guided path of thought to correct answers, they harm the creativity of students.

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Schools kill creativity by prioritizing academics (math, language, social studies, and science) above fine arts to generate ''better students''.

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Do schools kill creativity? Yes, I believe so. Schools kill creativity by not helping cater to the student's interest, as well as schools focus too much on academics versus things that kids want to be in class and engage in. Schools should integrate students interest to keep them engaged for the betterment of the school.

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Although schools allow you to take a variety of elective classes and clubs, one cannot deny that most classes are randomly picked for students and that schools focus more on academics which diminishes creativity.

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Although some schools do offer some types of creativity-based learning like art courses or chorus courses, they are most of the time underfunded and less appreciated than other academic courses. More or so schools destroy creativity more than nurture it and as well as focus more on academics and less on creativity which leads to students becoming increasingly identical to one another.

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Even though literacy is a vital component in education,School diminishes creativity in students in many ways, it should be taught as much as literacy

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Many people believe that schools cultivate creativity and provide a scenery where teenagers can be open to their interests. I believe that schools diminish creativity and do not provide a safe space for kids to explore their interests.

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The old, aged topic of education and the arts has come up numerous times, but specifically the importance of the art in the classroom or lack there of. The education system prioritizes literacy and academics above the creativity of students. Schools kill creativity rather than cultivate it. Creativity is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status

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Although critics may say that schools foster creativity because of extracurriculars involving careers,schools kill creativity because of a lack of variety in courses and the preset path school puts students on

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