Tag: creativity
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The Disappearing Joy of Reading
The art of reading for its own sake – unstructured, ungraded, and unfiltered by curriculum demands – has always been a vital gateway to critical thinking and imagination. However, in today’s world, the environment in which students and youth are growing up is more focused on standardised testing and getting ‘good grades’. The structured nature…
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Schooling vs. Self-Discovery: The Battle for Creative Expression
~ “Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value” – Sir Ken Robinson When I was in school, I hated writing. When I left school and became a homeschooler at the beginning of Year 4, I hated it even more. If you had told me from the age of 7 up until…
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