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Whether university education enables individuals to become creative has recently gained publicity. Some people point out that schools kill student’s creativity skills while others claim that to be creative education is essential. Sir Ken Robinson(2006) in his speech “Schools Kill Creativity” state that current systems of education are failing to meet the the challenges we now face and we are all born with deep natural capacities for creativity and systems of mass education tend to suppress them. On the other hand, Erica McWilliam(2007) in her text “Unlearning how to teach” emphasize the idea of creativity and discusses some implications for higher education pedagogy and curricula. If I take two contrary idea into consideration I defend the stance that children are afraid of try new things and not be successful. I support the view of Robinson because there were so many statements and points.
Schools are teaching students to fear being wrong. As children get older they fear being wrong because in school they are taught they should always have the right answers. This is part of the reason some students have such anxiety over tests. Current education system does not let them to do new mistakes. This system does not want them to be wrong that is make them to mentally compromise on trying new. Robinson (2006) in his speech argues that “If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.” Many times people get scared to be wrong and so they don’t use their creativity to come up with something that could be right. Mistakes can happen all the time but in most cases it is good so that there can be trial and error and better things can come out of it. Then Robinson continue to speak by “We run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we are now running national education systems...