Saturday, October 16, 2010

Creative Children

It's very true that in today's society we are "teaching" students out of being creative. Everything is stuctured and planned and most school environments. Without creativity and day dreaming we probably wouldn't have half of the technology we have today. Without creative minds nothing would be invented. Today, if a child can't sit still for very long they usually get misdiagnosed for ADHD which isn't right. It's like the little girl that Sir Ken Robinson described in his video. If someone had put her on medication for ADHD she probably wouldn't have created the amazing dance productions that she did such as "Cats". She was a creative little girl who thought when she danced but the teacher never realized that. Her mother jump started the girls career when she placed her in that school for dance. Think of how many children are probably like that little girl and are put on medication.... would we have more creative things today if most children weren't being misdiagnosed for ADHD? I believe we definately would. Society should have a new way of clearing this up when diagnosing children that don't need to be.

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