Dear Friends,
Hope you had a
great/tough week and getting ready to welcome your weekend J.
Here is an article I wrote about the topic on Imagination. I really welcome your inputs/thoughts,
critics and share if you have any such interesting activities for kids,
sometime it helps some of the adults tooJ. Happy Week end to
all!
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge
is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the
entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” said Albert
Einstein.
After reading this quote, Only thing which strikes to my
mind was that Am i really aligned with this quote.. The Answer is definitely
'NO' The way I brought up from my
childhood till I step in to my 3rd job, I was totally not according to this
quote, In fact I would tell that I was
never able to understand the real importance/meaning of this till certain point
of time. That’s the way I was brought up and I felt the same with my buddies as
well.
The question is
that, how did I and many of the Indian young generation was missed to have this
quality from their childhood?
I would criticize the
parents and teachers for this issue; they are equally responsible for not encouraging
the kids/students for creativity. In fact most children’s are more creative/
imaginative. But the sad part is that the formal schooling has just keen on
scoring marks by giving the exact answers, this happens in most of the Indian schools
and they are forcing the children’s to mug up the chapters and vomit it, this approach
really kills the imagination.
I would tell one
simple example is that, in most of the schools especially in lower classes like
L.K.G/1st std, they give the
printed coloring books for Art and they ask the children’s to color within the
lines, this actually kills their creativity and what is that they really learnt
from it ? Just play around the figure which is already done by someone..
Meaning just vomiting it… For those who wants to give their kids some good
activity like art I would recommend (Anti-colouring books (By Susan Striker),
just Google it. It is a good exercise to develop critical thinking skills and
to nurture imagination in Children.
Certain things
imposed on the children’s needs to be changed, like giving more pressure on
scoring 100/100 to come as 1st or attain grade A position in their
class exams, de-motivating them by comparing with other children’s and the
other reason is that the teachers expertise/knowledge is not up to the
standard, they are contributing major responsibility here..
After realizing these
facts I understand that why I was lagging in creativity and this is not too
late, I still have a chance to improve my creativity by joining with my kid J. I can spend some good time with few such interesting
activities along with the kid. If you
all agree on my point, then please follow it and share the best and your favorite
one with us J.
