Alexander Bell: Genius Example

My own idea of a creative genius is somebody who thinks or creates something that is ahead of their own time that benefits everyone in their era. Alexander Graham Bell is my idea of a genius. This man was the first to revolutionize long distant communication with others. He was credited with creating the first working telephone. I feel that he should be considered a genius because he had an idea that was ahead of his time. Without him we might now be discovering how to communicate long distance via the telephone. The telephone was the gateway to much of what we have created today. Alexander is also credited with finding techniques to help teach people who are deaf. Those techniques are still used today. Bell and some of his workers were also credited with creating the basic principle for the tape recorder, floppy disc and hard disc. I feel that he not only changed the way we communicate but also thought/created something that was ahead of his time. Not most people would have had the smarts or the ability to create something that we would still use today.

Is Education killing Creativity?

In class this week we watched a video of Ken Robinson's TED discussion on what he feels education is doing to creativity. He really goes in depth at how education today is causing kids to lose their ability to use their creative minds. After hearing his discussion, I have to agree with how he feels how kids are educated today is killing creativity.

During Mr. Robinson's lecture he talks about a young girl who was incapable of sitting still in class. When this girl was brought to the doctor to see what was wrong, he told her mother that she is a dancer. That girl was then enrolled in a dance studio and become a very successful dancer. Mr. Robinson feels that if she was acting that way today then she would have been put on medication to have her calm down. Usually her actions would be associated with ADD and most people who have that today are prescribed medication. He feels that if this girl was given medication to keep her from moving then they would not have realized that she would become a great dancer and an eventual famed choreographer.

I personally feel that education is killing creativity. Today schools always teach their students to do things the same way, what they are to be taught and how they are going to teach it. There is no change to the normal way of teaching and I feel this is what's killing creativity. Schools should teach more classes that require students to be more creative and not as much of using and remembering knowledge. If you use creativity to figure out problems and help better yourself than you are actually gaining knowledge.

Throughout my career as being a student I have had to use my creative side for multiple reasons. When it comes to doing projects and making visual presentations, I have had to be creative and figure out ways to present what my project is about. Whenever I have had to make something from scrap to visually show or represent something, I had to be creative or I would not get the inspiration to create it.

Revision At Its Finest

Revision is the single most important technique in writing in my opinion. If you are good at revising your piece of work than you can basically write a near perfect paper. That means you will not have any punctuation errors, grammar mistakes, run-on sentences and having anything that is unnecessary in your paper.You also have to have the time and patience when going through the revision process. When it comes to my writing and revision process, I need to go back and see if I have written anything that I just do not need in the paper. I also gotta read my writing out loud to myself and see if it makes sense because I tend to mix words up. Plus when I revise when I try to be creative, I sometimes will think of more to type and my paper will just get even better!!