Are we all creative and individual persons?
Does school kill creativity and individualism? That is one of the most interesting questions in the world. The thing is that people need skills, what they are learning at school. So the school is really important for people because in that place we are learning social and other skills. And maybe "killing creativity" means that some people would not dare to bring their abilities in front of other people, and they are hiding the ideas that they are created themselves.
There are many stories, that we are all intelligent and creative individuals until we will go to school, and there happens something, that destroys that thing, what we are calling individualism. The thing is that being productive and individual means that a person is also different than others. And this is the reason, why some people would not have the chance to bring their individualism out of their personality. In this theory, people who want to be individuals would not bring that ability to other people's knowledge, because they are afraid of cheaters.
Is this true or false? The thing is that there are many people, who misunderstand this kind of thing, and say that people should not even go to school. This is one of the greatest misunderstandings of that kind of thing. Schools are really good places to learn social skills and other kinds of things, and when we are talking about education, it is giving tools to handle things.
Social skills are not the thing, that we should always mention, but they are an effective tool in the control of life. If we are creative and individual people, who are creating something individual, we must also have the ability to follow rules and norms, what society is giving to us. There is nothing to shame if a person would want to make productive things, but there are always people, who are jealous of that kind of thing.
So when we are thinking about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, we must realize that those persons were extreme examples of the individualists, whose inventions changed the world. The thing is that those men were only two inventors, who made extraordinary things during their life. There are many other inventors, who were made many other things, which are similar way important as the inventions, what those people made.
And when we are thinking that some of those persons are ever been at schools, we must realize that the school history of those persons might be destroyed, because of national security. That makes impossible to track those people by following their school history, but the destroyer of those papers is sometimes unknown.
There is told many tales that Nikola Tesla ever went to school, but if you read the personal history of Tesla you mean that this person was in school (1). So, in this case, claiming that school destroys creativity has nothing to do with this case. The thing is that in school people can share their ideas with others, and that makes possible to advance and refine the idea. And maybe some of the ideas would turn true products.
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