It is important to ask whether Schools are ruining kids’ creativity. While education systems play a vital role in kids’ development and knowledge, people’s concerns remain that the structured nature of education may ruin the children’s creative thinking development.

“With a lot of homework that we have, some kids don’t get extra periods to work on stuff. So I think when they get home, they have to do loads of work, and they don’t have much time for themselves, especially the kids who are athletes,” Chris Berry (8) said.

The pressure to turn in assignments on time and to have extra work assigned can also discourage children and students from taking their free time to do sports or to think outside the box, leading children’s creativity to decline. An environment that heavily emphasizes grades can create the fear of failure. The fear of failure discourages students from exploring their minds and taking risks to their creativeness.   

“We don’t have enough time to do our other work that makes our grades failing, and is not as well helping us study more. It’s taking our minds away from things that we’ve already learned in the past,” Abigail Kozel (8) said.

Creativity can also involve trial and error but that is important to creativity because if kids don’t have trial and error to their creativity, a fear of messing up and making mistakes can invade kids creativity skills. 

While the education systems do play an important role in kids future and creativity, there is no evidence directly proving if the education school systems are ruining kids creativity.