Let me attempt to put this thread back on track, away from the discussion of the use of the atomic bomb on Japanese cities.
All you whiny high-schoolers, all of you need to shut up. The purpose of the school system is not to foster creativity, it is for you to learn. To learn, among other things, the history of your civilization, the necessities you will need in the future, and most importantly, to become productive members of society.
Schools are far more rigorous elsewhere, and because of this fact, foreign high school students are outperforming you, and they are better prepared to become productive members of society than you are. That's why they come here and take all the high paying jobs. Meanwhile, you're taking remedial classes in college because high school failed to teach you what you need to know because it was concerned about your 'feelings'.
So shut up, stop whining, and start studying. And quit complaining about your creativity. Sheesh, you're still in high school. Euclid, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Democritus, Aneximander, Newton, Euler, Gauss, Faraday, Einstein, Feynman, and many, many others, were all far more creative than you. Maybe when you know what they knew, you can complain about your creativity being stifled.
And I went to a difficult high school, so I have the authority to talk. A mere few years ago, every day I was discussing a great work of the Western Tradition for two hours in the morning: Aristotle, Aquinas, Plato, Socrates, Marx, John Locke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and a whole lot of others. And then in the afternoon I was evaluating integrals and studying the effects of the electric field. Oh, and I studied four years of Latin, too.
And don't give me that the education system was for the Industrial Revolution. Less than a half-century ago, the education system produced graduates capable of putting a man on the moon. So it's clearly effective, or should I say, it was effective.
So, quit your whining about your AP chemistry, or your English class, or how the education system stifles creativity. The way I see it, the education system is failing you, and you don't have the nerve to complain about that instead of your precious 'creativity'. You should be demanding more rigor from your classes, more homework, more school time, more difficult subject matter, because you will need it if you want any chance in hell of getting a satisfying job where you get to use that giant ball of gray mush in your head instead of at a fast food restaurant or a retail store.
tl;dr Shut up and go study.
Author
Topic: School kills creativity? (Read 10739 times)