smithsammy: @DAMEx33, u havn't answered my questions. One in the last paragraph of my essay and and the other one in my rebuttal.

Damex333: with all pleasure Sir, we have Royal Ballet School, Mozart music and dance schools. And we have The JOFFREY Academy of Dance

Damex333: comparing the creativity level? I say we in this era are more creative than in the pre-education era

IamDejman: it's not widely recognized, am sure most Africans are not aware of their existence. Even I was not aware of their existence, sir....

Damex333: Bill Gates Question has been answered in my argument. If Gates didn't learn how to study programming, i dont think he will ever become a programmer. And stop limiting education to the four corners of a classroom

smithsammy: virtually every technologies we are enjoying today are invented in the pre-educational age. What education only does is to pass the knowledge of this iventions to as many as it can. Education don't bread innovation rather, it teaches already innovated concept. You have no fact to reprove this.

smithsammy: you havnt dame333. Bill gate quickly opted out when he realised the impending doom of any furtherance in his so called education career. I need an intellectual answers from you damex.

Damex333: the fact know they exist does not mean they dont exist. Most Nigerian University offers Music, and forms of art as course. So, i dont think that is am excuse

Damex333: i went in search of your pre-educational age/era and I found that there was education in ancient egypt 1400BC.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education
maybe you need to check this yourself

IamDejman: ma'am, u have been repeating the same word. My point is that average people in the world don't know that there are schools of art,dance etc

Damex333: Gates opt out because he understands that he has learnt enough to take him through.

Damex333: more than half of the World's population knows

smithsammy: education=imparting existing knowledge, creativity= creating and innovating knowledge. Any correlation between the two? Absolutely No. That is why a review needs to be made to panacea the banes the educations is causing

IamDejman: Nairaland Administrator;
Oluwaseun Osewa,
Chief Co-coordinators,
Co-coordinators,
Incorruptible panel of Judges,
Co-debaters,
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Good day, my name is IamDejman representing Lagos state university to support the topic ‘Education kills Creativity’. First of all, I’ll define Education and Creativity. Education, according to the Wikipedia, means a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research while, Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and valuable is created (such as an idea, a joke, a literary work, a painting or musical composition, a solution, an invention etc.).
It is pertinent to note the followings; Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. All kids have tremendous talents -- and we squander them pretty ruthlessly. We are educating people out of their creative capacities. Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized. I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get education out of it. Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom
are the arts. It's education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp. There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?
However, many people have written about ways to change education, but what well has it done if we are leaving out the voice of the students? Years continue to pass, some students graduate, some fail out, some drop out and nothing really changes. The education system reminds me of a dictator that is unwilling to step down. I'm aware that no education system is perfect, and I believe they are all the same across the world. We memorize, study for the test and forget, only to know 10 years later what an atrocious world we have been constructing. I strongly feel that our methodologies in schools are demolishing creativity. Students have lost their capacity of creation simply because our teaching methods don't stimulate innovation and creativity. Creativity isn't a test to take, a skill to learn, or a program to develop. Creativity is seeing things in new ways, breaking barriers that stood in front of you for some time. Creativity is the art of hearing a song that has never been written or seeing a work of art on empty canvas. Its essence is in its freshness and the ability to make dreams come to life. In the 21st century, the world demands students who can think creatively and critically. As technology develops, we will have robots to do all the basic work for us. However, it is our mission to ensure that the next generation will be full of inventors, musicians, painters, mathematicians who will, in turn, bring humanity to another level.
In Conclusion, The cycle of sitting still, memorizing, testing and getting a job have existed for a long time now and few dared to challenge it. However, those who dared to challenge the status quo like Albert Einstein, the Wright brothers, and Walt Disney have changed the course of history. I understand that memorizing is the fastest way to get good grades, get into a good college, and get a job (which we equate with a good life). We are being educated for the promise of money. As a student I know one thing for sure: I never want to be a product living my life inside a box. I want to cherish my brilliant mind. I want to imagine, to create, to be the best I can possibly be. I never want to be a robot. I want to argue, to challenge and define the impossible. I cannot possibly let someone assemble my life. How do we expect students to be creative if teachers give them the outline, the title, and the structure of their "creative writing assignment?" They give students model answers to memorize, we give a specific title to write a poem about, and they truly give them everything but the freedom to express their ideas. Youth have fresh ideas. While teachers complain that students are spending an awful lot of time on social networking, they forget to mention that it's the only way we, the students, can have our voice heard. Education isn't about facts being stored in our minds so that we can get tested on them. Education is the beauty to nurture creativity, to fuel curiosity and to create a well-rounded person. With all this, I hope I have convinced you enough that Education kills Creativity. Thanks

REFERENCES
http://www.jesusjazzbuddhism.org/does-education-kill-creativity.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/line-dalile/a-dictator-racing-to-nowh_b_1409138.html

Jarus: Good job you've done there, Dejman. But my question: can you risk not sending your kid to school?

Damex333: same question am still going to ask you. Can you think outside the box without having knowledge of what is in the box?

Jarus:

Smithsammy, are you a LASU student?

IamDejman: I hope am not rude with my answer. I'm still single so answering the question seems unprofessional .

Jarus:

Very good job, man. I like your persuasive skills. But, do you think formal schooling/education system should be scrapped or modified? If the latter, how?

Jarus:
How? Elaborate. You're not rude.

IamDejman: Let me just answer your question in the best way I can. If I see it deem fit for my child to attend a school of dance since he is a great dancer and he's passionate about it, I will. And if he is a maths genius, I would take him to a formal school. I am not saying that education is bad but that education does not improve creativity

♥Dεs•Chγκσ♥:
@SmithSammy.. According to your definition, in summary, Education means acquiring knowledge directly from a source while Creativity means innovation by self.. Since every person must fill his mind from his environment which now is the source, you'll agree with me that education, in fact, is necessary before creativity can even exist?