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Education has played a significant role in every era. It can guarantee success in one’s life but 

when people are forced to learn something, it will not benefit them and their creativity will be 

stigmatized due to the lack of interest. The purpose of education is not to force students to learn 

specific subjects but to help them find their passion by encouraging them to be creative at their strong 

intelligences.  

 

Students do not have a chance to extend their creativity because the way of teaching is based 

on memorizing. Most teachers stuff  information to students’ heads, so students do not even get a 

chance to choose what they want to learn. If students can not choose what they want to learn, they 

would not be interested in what they are forced to learn and that may affect their ambition in the future. 

In “Reinventing education to teach creativity and entrepreneurship” ,Jennifer Medbery says 

gradebooks and multiple­choice are not the best way to grade students and realize their improvement so 

teaching needs a good classroom relationship management. I think the best way to grade students is 

through projects. Instead of the final exam students can come up with a project about the most 

interesting thing they learned in class. The projects can be a research paper, presentation , new 

experiment or anything they find Inspiring. Jennifer Medbery mentioned what Dan Meyer has said

“imagine if we replace the math text-book with a lot of chances to ask thoughtful questions

about the surroundings “. In this classroom students can extend their creativity and learn how

to observe and think because they chose what they keen to, they are more likely to find their

passion. For example my parents enrolled my young brother in a creativity institute. In the

institute they measure kids’ intelligence to put them in the most beneficial level based on what

the kid was good at. And also they try their best to develop the abilities kids have and motivate

them to keep working on them. Ken Robinson has said you have to find your own talents

because they are not just lying around so institutes like this are one of the best ways to

discover talents and develop them. I noticed that my brother has become quick-witted and he

can deal with things better than kids on his age. I completely agree with this kind of learning

because it will cultivate intelligent thinking and would encourage kids to be creative to accomplish their 

goals.   

 

 In order to produce creative students, teachers should pay more attention to the idea of creativity 

because it is the key of an ideal and modern education system. In addition one of the biggest problems 

regarding creativity is that students are not assigned activities which stimulate creativity and intellectual 

development. Creative activities can help students open up their minds and explore their abilities. Also 

these activities can make them interested in something the have hated before because it was not 

introduced to them in a pleasant way specially kids. When I was in sixth grade, one of my teachers 

assigned us a very interesting activity. We were divided into groups to explore how sound moves 

through materials. It was a complex task for sixth graders but at the same time it was thought provoking 

and fascinating activity. Assignments and activities like this will motivate students and make them 

interested in the class material.  Jennifer Medbery claimed that teachers should be enthusiastic and not 

only ready to encourage creativity but are in charge of ensuring kids improve those abilities. Moreover 

students need to keep working on their abilities in order to have more opportunities in the future. 

Teachers are the first knowledge provider so they have to aid students to find the right path and to keep 

working on what students believe in.  Jennifer Medbery  says the essential goal of teaching can now 

change from “stand and deliver”  to be sure that every students will be able to create and tinker after 

graduation. Teachers are assigned to take action on this challenge due to their position. They must guide 

students to have a passion by many ways such as telling them how the teacher found his own passion 

and encouraging them to have a good role model.