Re:Would you work with micromanaging boss, no salary, and al...
by bayareaguy on Sunday June 22, 2008 @04:05AM
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I'll grant that many schools (and workplaces) are run by people who take that attitude towards creativity and I think the general lack of parental involvement is the biggest cause. I know one teacher who quit the profession when not a single parent cared about attending her second grade class conference.
However there are some good schools out there that do value creativity. It's unfortunate that parents can't or won't insist there be more of them.
I'd like to elaborate a bit on the creativity part. Most school is a lot like an assembly line - the cheapest way to teach thousands of children necessary things. This is not bad, time and money constraints are real. But in this framework you can't afford to encourage true creativity, simply because to be creative you need: 1. a "space" in which to be creative and 2. not to be evaluated by classic means. School environment provides neither.