Do Schools Kill creativity?

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Comment by dawn hilton on November 26, 2008 at 6:25pm

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Comment by dawn hilton on October 2, 2008 at 10:38am

Diana, Wot a down right bitch, is she still alive?

Find out, I'll bury her alive!lol

You know sweet heart, these teachers have a lot to answer for.

What must come before anything is finding out who the most sensitive children are in a class room, they should then teach them in groups of peace.

I know that I needed peace in my head to learn, slightest noise and it throws me concentration.

I was told at the age of 7.5 that I was dumb cause I couldn't spell the word 'ROBIN' I knew then it was her that was the bumb bitch as she was the teacher.x

Comment by dawn hilton on September 12, 2008 at 10:16am

Jeroen, I think it's all down to self discovery in the end, only real artists can feel this naturally.

Some feel it and sense it instantly, others, it takes years to be able to focus.

I have met artists that have run off course for years, only to do a U turn and then find that they have to look deep in to themselves for their art.x

Comment by dawn hilton on September 11, 2008 at 4:39pm

Brilliant, it's about time someone educated said something that meant something.

I totally 100% understood where Ken is coming from.

After never attending a school from the age of eight, I'm glad.

I have had to rely on all my senses through my life, I truly feel that if I had been educated through main stream school I would have never found my creative gift the way that I naturally found it, it would have been taken from me and I'd be sat at some office desk typing away.

I prefer to call myself a Natural Philosopher- Artist.

My artwork is about everything and each work are very different.
I KNOW we all have a transmitter (Thought) which is where thought was born; I KNOW we also have a receptor (Receiver).

It is only when 'WE' know how to tune in to them both that 'WE' are 100% at peace with whom we are and how 'WE' fully understand ourselves.

I think that 'OUR' spiritual soul guides each and everyone of us.

Time is thought, thought is time, there is no end to time, like there will be no end to thought.
I went to school at the age of 5 and what I can remember of the very early years from 4/7 was great.
Then one day at the age of eight, I was placed in a prefab hut with the special needs kids, we were all tormented at every lunch time, like we had leprosy.
I asked the new teacher why I was in there, she replied' because your slow' I asked what she meant, she said that because I couldn't spell the word 'ROBIN' I was slow.

I hated her and school from that day and never went back.


From that day, I would go and hide in old peoples flats squashing flies all day on windows.

Because we lived on a farm, I would go across the fields and keep on walking and not go to school.

Luckily it was the early 70's by now and everyone were Immigrating to Australia that meant so did we.

It was great, mum got me in to a school, but I never went, I went and stole horses and rode them in the sea.

I never went to the schools, the odd day, but nothing to make an impact on Me., I rebelled, I hated school and all that it stood for.

We later went to New Zealand; there we lived out the back of an old J2 Comer Van, just working our air fair back to the UK.

There I learnt the hard way how to survive, how to outwit life, but how to enjoy it too.

One Day coming down the Snowy Mountains in New Zealand My father showed me how to free wheel down a Snowy mountain with your cam belt snapped and piston rings blown, that was nerve wreaking and I have never been scared of anything or anyone since that day.

What I learnt in those 6 years was how to survive and survive by your senses and wit, what it felt like to really Starve, but be really happy at the same time; no school education system can teach you that.

Four years later and after sleeping rough in old tents, yet living the life I would die for now, we retuned home.

I got married, had a few kids and then my husband ran off with his assistant.

Art found me when I was 29 and fighting a divorce battle, I am now 47 and art is still with me.

I would like to class myself now as a natural philosopher, after having to live by my nerve and senses.

My theories of life are.

Learn to tune in to your transmitter (thought) at the top of your head.

Then learn how to tune in and use your receptors (Receiver) (your third eye).

Once you have mastered how to tune yourself in to them, concentrate how to channel in to your subconscious minds eye and feel the over whelming peace that you find there.

I have kind of told you my story now, but I have not told you how I lost my soul mate 18 months ago in an awful accident on the 15th of December 2006.

It was very painful and it still is.

I have not had a dream since losing Andrew in 18 months; my creative thoughts are not as strong and powerful as they once were.

My brain is protecting my thought, (transmitter) and Receptor (Receiver) which is protecting my dreams and memories.

Yet I am still able to function my semi subconscious (my creative minds eye) until I awake and plan my art work out.

I cannot visualize Andrew at all or even visualize his horrific injuries, I truly trust and know my brain is protecting me.

In 18 months of losing Andrew, I have painted over 200 oil paintings, captured 100’s of Photo’s, opened my art Gallery lived my life’s ambition, healed a broken heart which incidentally there is no known cure for, created three web sites, networked myself and made sure my two baby sons are healthy and happy.

I have not taken any medication, or had any counselling or asked for any form of medical help.

I have turned and tuned in to my creative soul/spirit to help guide and heal the pain.

This year I have been invited to Florence by the Internal Selection Panel to show at the 2009 Biennale after only networking myself for three months.

To participate in a show in Chicago in December 08, and have been offered three places in London Art Galleries.
Since losing Andrew on the 15th of December 2006, I have lived my Life’s Ambition of opening my own Art Gallery and showing my Art for the 1st time to the world on the 14th of April 2007.

Life can be very cruel, but it can be beautiful to.

Comment by James Aldridge on September 11, 2008 at 11:46am

I think it all depends on what you mean by creativity and depends on the school. Sounds a bit obvious maybe and is made a lot harder by big class sizes and too many tests, but what I think what is important is to support each child to learn in a way that is appropriate to them and their individual needs, making learning playful, creative, and enjoyable and all about experience - connecting with who they are as a person, rather than forcing supposed universal 'truths' on to them.

By creativity I mean the way that each of us relates to the world, sees the world and the models of reality that we form through our experience... all of us and not just artists.

I work with 5x5x5=creativity (www.5x5x5creativity.org.uk), an action research organisation that teams artists (visual, musical, movement...) with teachers and cultural organisations (galleries, theatres, arboretums...) to support children in discovering their creativity and leading their own learning. The research is then offered up for publication and discussion with the aim of changing policy.

It's fascinating work and well worth a read if you are interested. And as a charity always needs more support, so please spread the word...

James x

Comment by john winstanley on September 11, 2008 at 11:16am

p.s. i tend to agree with cornel,jeroen & john paul etc

Comment by john winstanley on September 11, 2008 at 11:14am

its fine that techniques are tought but so much i see these days is just training artistic people to fit into a convention & suppress natural talents.its not as bad as in my school days however, thankfully, but still too often driven by "business" type directives.(at one point at school i was stopped from doing art at all as the administration thought it wise!!!!this is unlikely nowadays) colleges are also driven to force students to rush thro a curriculum & get to a degree as fast as possible even if the artwork is only mediocre.Art is not a "job"!!cheers folks-j

Comment by dawn hilton on September 10, 2008 at 11:33pm

Wow Guys, What GREAT a response!

Keep the coming, your all wonderful sharing this magical reaction.xx
Dawn.xx

Comment by cornel airinei on September 10, 2008 at 10:47pm

Art is not about hand-eye coordination and technique, Art is about getting into a zone to create magic !
John Lindsey

Comment by Hans Mertens on September 10, 2008 at 6:29pm

Hi people,

U don't understand the commotion.

Nothing wrong with school as long as they educate your skills in art.

Best regards from Holland,

Hans
www.hansmertens.nl
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