The School’s Dying Language Found in Bright Lights

Everyone speaks about creative and where its gone. Some blame electronics, others lack of interest to think outside of the box, while Richard Florida blames school snuffing out the one thing that helps most students get through school. As we get older our want to be creative decreases. A study recorded 1600 children’s test scores for creativity. “…3 and 5 years old, 98 percent achieved positive scores. When they were 8 to 10, only 32 percent passed the same test, and only 10 percent at 13 to 15. When 280,000 25-year-olds took the test, just 2 percent passed,” (Florida). Schools snuff out creative as if its disease for children’s minds, when in reality, it’s doing the child’s mind good. But after school, there are rarely any places you find creativity. But I agree with Florida when he says that creativity can be found in the city. It’s lights and stores and the smells. Subways and the buses that sparks the dead minds of our writers, musicians and designers. A green light or a woman walking down the street with a bright green handbag. Anything could spark the mind a creative thinker if they take a stroll down the street. Creativity is a dying language in schools that can be reborn in skyscrapers or a wild hairstyle. But if we open our minds to thinking outside the box, maybe CREATIVITY wouldn’t be education’s Latin.

                  -(Mel)rina Stanford-Madden