RS7: It's Time to Imagine

     The anxiety that comes with being a student is common. Pressure comes in all forms until one decides that creativity is not as important as knowledge. However, I belive that the education system has failed in realisisng that students today are suffering because they are in fact afraid to fail. Failure, though not looked upon with a smile, is a necessary step to mental/psychological and character development. Who we are is important, but it's just as important to who we could have been if we allowed our true talent to flourish. From personal expereince, I have been through the stage of disregarding my own artistic talent in order to flourish academically, but I never fail to return to it. Thus we are failing to integrate knowledge and learning with the one thing that ensures us a better future, a new world, and a better way to sustain the world. Creativity.

     If students are afraid to let their creativity take control, then this is a sure sign that teachers as well as parents suffer from anxiety.... a social and personal anxiety; for if the issue is that parents and teachers are afraid to let the youth fail and learn from it, it means that they are also afraid of how this will cast upon them. Ken Robinson said that intelligence is diverse and comes in different colors and I blieve this.

     Mozart was not an academic genius but he was novel item in his time. At the age of 4 he composed his own music and played both the piano and violin. Ghandi a legend and great historical leader excelled in academics, before becoming an icon, he was a lawyer. And after realizinng the suffering of his own people, he used his talent and led them to independence. A  young Irish actress named Saorsie Ronan began acting at the age of 4 and today she plays in the big screen and continue to amaze the mass with her gift.

       Parents want their children to be successful. They believe the opportunity cost of going to college and becoming a doctor or lawyer is better choice than becoming a tireless dancer on broadway, but success does not have only one door open. It has many. And if at a young age we can't learn to be honest with ourselves we make losing ourselves possible.