‘I wish I was creative’. These are frequent statements I hear from teachers, students, parents, businessmen etc.
Well everyone is born creative, however, this creativity can be sharpened through daily practice or experiences. Many of the people still think that creativity means something related to art (sketching, coloring etc). Creativity is not just about sketching or coloring skills, creativity can be in your ideas, thoughts, writing skills, something that is different in you than others is creativity. It is this innovation and imagination that many employers and companies seek to attract in their candidates. They want the creative thinkers, the challenges and the risk takers on their team.
So why don’t we encourage our children to be creative? to be different? whenever we see something in our children that other children aren’t doing we discourage our children. Why is it so? when in future only creativity is important so why are we asking them to be the same, follow the same wrong path that most of the people follow? We want them to get amazing marks in English because others also got it but what about mathematics? he is good at mathematics. How can we expect him to be same as others when Allah has created everyone creative in a different way. Why do we compare our children with others? Comparing our children’s creativity with others and then stressing them to be like them, is same as asking a fish to run, or a bird to swim deep under the ocean. We all are unique in our own way.
With this fast moving world, we can’t stay in the same position if we try to stay in the same position we will be not able to enter the modern world of opportunities. If others aren’t moving faster does not mean that we also have to go slow and follow them. Or if we really wish to follow, follow the best in the world not in the city only or in the country but in the world be the best when you are gifted by Allah.
Many of us still want to follow and choose the old traditional education system for our children where kids are forced to not be creative just be the rote learners with zero concepts, so much surface learning, and deep learning is not really important. What are we really up to?
Children learn better when they are ready. Why stress them out? We must encourage them to start but should never force them it destroys their creativity.
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