Genius of children .. Do schools kill creativity?

Every person is born with a certain talent and a natural readiness for creativity, but what happens to these wonderful abilities over time?

According to British academic education expert Ken Robinson, the person is born with great imaginative potentials but the traditional school system supports it, according to the French newspaper Le Monde.

The author, author of "Do Schools Kill Creativity?", Tested 1,500 children in kindergartens and asked them how many uses they could make with a simple pin.

Of those, 98% were "geniuses" - more than 200 different uses of the pin (for example, whether it could be 150 meters or foam), while most adults only imagine 10 to 15.

After a while, Robinson conducted another test on the same children when they were between 8 and 10 years of age and only 30% had geniuses, but only 12% when they were between 13 and 15 years of age.

Genius is therefore inherent in the person, and should be developed to bear fruit in children, first by discovering their talents and then making them thrive.

To cultivate and consolidate them, the person should be guided to do what he loves and what is more skillful. This is the best way to reach his full potential and increase his chances of finding the right path.

But this clashes with a personal and public challenge at the same time. Robinson says that "we must promote the development of children's abilities to face artificial intelligence with appropriate skills."

The current proliferation of educational alternatives - promoted by the development of neuroscience - shows that a new era of education has begun to take shape. The market has become interested in this and there have been initiatives here and there to contribute.

For example, BANDACRAFT has developed educational and creative kits for children between 3 and 7 years old and between 8 and 12 years old.

The project is based on the idea that the child is kept in his memory by 10% of what he hears, 20% of what he sees, and 90% of what he does. To achieve cognitive progress, the child must have a pivotal role in learning.