Welcome to the second year.

Well here we are again for round two of the blogging except for this time it will be more in depth to a certain subject. For this first part of the year we will be focusing our energy on the disscusion of creativity. Yeah I know we already did that but with it only being a week or so last year their was'nt much time to cover the many aspects of such an enormous subject. In fact its so vague that I have had trouble wondering where to start so I decided to just talk about school and education and how that has an effect on the creativity of the world. After watching the video with michael powell on the subject of education I really started to realise that I was'nt the only person that felt missunderstood in school.
I was always told that I would never be able to keep a job or do anything if I did not concentrate in class. Which I could never understand why they said that because I could always concentrate well at work. I was getting payed LOL!!! stupid schools dont understand the logic of being able to do things of which we enjoy and have intrest. My intrest at the time was where my money for the next game would come from, not in where the decimal point should go in this equation.
The idea of schools and university's not considering an art related course as being as important as that of math's and english is fustrating and emoral. As without these outbursts of imaginative inervation we would not have the world and the technology we have today. This stems to games, films, architecture and music. These are every day things that people take for granted, take these elements away and you left with unimaginative robots that do the the same thing day in day out and live to learn the same things and do the same jobs. Boring!!!! This may be ok for the individual but it is not for me,I want more than just doing a buisness course and wearing a snazzy suit.
So then it begs the question "What is creativity?"
I let this stew around in my head for a while and I finally think I would like to describe it as a "mental process of which you use your imagination to think up or create both mentally or physically an idea of which has been something else or a collection of things. For example it could be anything from a conversation or thought to a telephone box and a bump to the head."
In other words creativity is everything and the way I see it, you can be creative in science as you could create compounds with elements and extract salt from sea water using instruments and techniques of which thought of and experimented with.
You can be creative in english as people write wonderful poetry or script write plays or short story's. Along with reading novels that have wonderful illustrations using usually some sort of ink(artist did them!).
You can even be creative in maths as there are methods of remembering your times tables through songs and patterns that are extremely creative.
So then why is an art course that by my reckoning is by far the most creative of the school subjects not considered to be a needed subject as much as that of the others.
If you look at primary school for instance, children in reception are taught all the types of skills they need through the way of play and experimentation. As they then progress through the years they gradually lose this ability to learn things through experimenting and playing with ideas. They do this through no fault of there own but through the fault of the schools system to control and mold children into uncreative drones of society. It may sound morbid but in retrospect it is a very realistic interpretation of the present day todate.
I will be researching creativity further and posting links to websites that I found and consider relevant to the subject of creativity.
Till next time cya !!!