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EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 9:26pm On Dec 27, 2013
Ajibam: we await the judges tomorrow...
many complaints for them..
anyways,, smith and IamDejman
nice meeting you..

goodnight
you still have not tell me how and where i derailed or you just said that for the sake of it?
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 9:23pm On Dec 27, 2013
Ajibam: this is a lie sir...

your partner can't even say that...
if you can't answer them just leave them for him... we would wait.. don't cut corners..

thanks
it is very simple, repost the questions. Thank u
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 9:20pm On Dec 27, 2013
Ajibam: stop derailing the debate smith...

your partner left tons of questions unanswered and you come here talking about gdp...please kindly hop back to the debate topic....

don't try and deflate to GDP...

represent your school well by answering the questions your partner left or are you in the church too?
could you please tell me how and where I derailed? Thank u.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 9:16pm On Dec 27, 2013
Ajibam: i am highly disappointed in you for dodging the questions ignored by your partner and raise an off topic discussion...
and this will be my last post on it(GDP)

as our representative said, Qatar are leading ..

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_GDP_per_capita

thanks
all your questions has duely been answered by my partner. I went through all the post when I came back and I find none unanswered. Thank u
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 8:57pm On Dec 27, 2013
Damex333: qatar is leading in Asia and the world
I also need you to provide a salient and verifyable fact to back your assertion.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 8:53pm On Dec 27, 2013
Damex333: qatar is leading in Asia and the world
could you pls give before the house the list of imported goods from Qartar in Nigeria? We have variety of goods from china which is apparent to even a 2yrs old child.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 8:48pm On Dec 27, 2013
AJIBAM pls, urs answers are needed.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 8:43pm On Dec 27, 2013
IamDejman: yes, it will....do u even understand the term GDP?
I don't think he understands the term GDP.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 8:39pm On Dec 27, 2013
Ajibam: china??
most creativity is builded to satisfy self and not nation....

you can't say that since mark Zuckerberg came from Nigeria,, Nigeria will have the highest GDP.....
I am disappointed by this answers of yours. Simple question needs lay answer. Once again, could you tell to the house who is taking the lead in terms of GDP growth in Asia?
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 8:27pm On Dec 27, 2013
Am waiting for your answer @AjIBAM
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 8:25pm On Dec 27, 2013
Ajibam: judges, this is a fake writeup...



Japan has the most tailored education blended with creativity..
they shoove it into their education system for the building of their creativity...
it is called
shuHari Japanese learning system..

http://www.makigami.info/cms/japanese-learning-system-japan-36


judges, take note
could you pls tell to the house the leading country in asia in terms of GDP?
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 8:21pm On Dec 27, 2013
Ajibam: is your own definition of favoritism is letting my school lose??
i hear you sir... let the judge come before i talk again...
peace. bro
I see nepotism in most the audience questions. You guys failed to realize that this is just a debate.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 8:18pm On Dec 27, 2013
Ajibam: now, going to the higher institution..
the student will decide to build on his creativity by choosing a course that will groom him up. if he chooses otherwise, who is to blame for the death of his creativity... he is the murderer..
so, you can't blame it on education... education can't kill your creativity, your decision and determination only have the right to kill it..

EDUCATION IS NOT A KILLER BUT A PROMOTER..
As Sir ken Robinson also asserted at the TEDTALK SHOW in 2006, he noted that:
"Kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. They're not frightened of being wrong ... What we do know is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. By the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity ... And we run companies like this ... [And now we're running education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make]. And the result is we're educating people out of their creative capacity. Human communities depend upon the diversity of talent, not a singular conception of ability."
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 8:11pm On Dec 27, 2013
in my essay, i outlined the issue of japan loosing out their continent economy power to china simply because they failed to realize the needs for the incorporation of creativity schemes into their education system.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 7:22pm On Dec 27, 2013
thank for the advice sir. i would surely work on that.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 7:12pm On Dec 27, 2013
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@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?
get ur fact right! Creativity is questing for new idea. Never you use eduucaTION for creativity. TION means system and creativity is not system.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m):
Jarus: Smithsammy, are you a LASU student?
I am representing lasu but I am a lagos state polytechnic student.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 6:40pm On Dec 27, 2013
Damex333: same question am still going to ask you. Can you think outside the box without having knowledge of what is in the box?
yes I can! And mind you, there is a significant diferent between learning and education. Get ur facts right. Education is a system and the system is inhibiting creativity.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 6:31pm On Dec 27, 2013
Damex333: Gates opt out because he understands that he has learnt enough to take him through.
nope. He opted out bacause he realized that the eduucation system is teaching him out of his creative ability.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 6:28pm On Dec 27, 2013
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
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
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 6:21pm On Dec 27, 2013
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
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.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 6:17pm On Dec 27, 2013
Damex333: comparing the creativity level? I say we in this era are more creative than in the pre-education era
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.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 6:00pm On Dec 27, 2013
@DAMEx33, u havn't answered my questions. One in the last paragraph of my essay and and the other one in my rebuttal.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 5:42pm On Dec 27, 2013
@DAMEX333, Can you compare the rate (level) of creativity explorations in the pre-education era to the post-education era? Of course no. The rate at which people explore creativity then is great because there is no education to inhibit it.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 5:40pm On Dec 27, 2013
[color=#006600@ DAMEX333, Can you compare the rate (level) of creativity explorations in the pre-education era to the post-education era? Of course no. The rate at which people explore creativity then is great because there is no education to inhibit it. ][/color]
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate. :::Planning Thread by smithsammy(m): 5:20pm On Dec 27, 2013
I have just posted my essay sir @finest. Don't post the one I sent to u again.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 5:10pm On Dec 27, 2013
Topic: EDUCATION KILLS CREATIVTIY.

It will indeed, be an unethical conduct by my intellectual person if i fail to prioritize the acknowledgment of the stake holders of this debate before I kick-start the lending of my credence.

Esteem honor to the founder of this forum, Mr Oluwaseun Osewa, Who create this enabling platform from which this formidable and salient e-debate is birthed, the erudite and never relented coordinators, the always true and fair judges, my co -- learned and informed debaters, and the viewing audience .
My name is smithsammy, second representative of the indomitable alma-mater: Lagos State University. The university located in the great Centre of Excellence and State of Aquatic splendor.
Stance: supporting.

Did Education Kills Creativity? In my solid and affirmative answer, YES it does!

The ever increased in global hunt and contentions for innovative and creative persons has made it understandable that it will only keep upsurging if a review and restructure is not made to the education system.
The world needs creative and innovative minds to advanced, but this talents is increasingly hard to come by, because the modules operandi of the education system is not so friendly for the students to puncture, counter and devise their suitable way of learning and thus, hindering free thinking and creativity.

Before I plunge into main details/aguement, I would want us to have a lay and thorough understanding of the terminologies embodied in the topic so to get us acquainted with the concept.

Education: according to businessdictionary.com, is the wealth of knowledge acquired by an individual (after studying a particular subject matter or experiencing a life lessons that provide an understanding of something).
Creativity: according to businessdirectory.com also, is the mental characteristics that allows a person to think in innovative or different approaches to a particular task. While;
Kill: is to cease from existence.

Taking a critical look at the above definitions, you will observe that education only impart and inculcate a knowledge (that has already been in existence), even if the so called knowledge is outdated and void to what should be obtainable at the immediate time. You will also realize that the pattern and mode of the education system did not give an enabling room for creativity whatsoever.

Most of our education institutions could only be classified as a production factory that produces mere state bureaucrats instead of think-tankers, theory refiners/explorers and solution profferers, it focus on just traditional institutional arrangements which apparently is a detriment and inhibition to creativity, the education hierarchical institutional structures is hindering free thinking and also posing a challenge to creativity which we all know is the panacea to new ideas, new ideas that will help solve the big problems of our time, problem of global water crises, shortage of food, climate change, violence, insecurity and among others.

In the class, student are not allowed to create, rather, they are false to learn a conventional and traditional knowledge. student are not permitted to counter or challenge a general belief, they are not allowed to provide a penetrating insight, they are not graced to offer challenges to existing intellectual frame work, and to think literally. student are made to follow a route and are not allowed to create a route. The education system is only designed to breed students to pass tests and examinations rather than inculcating in them how to think intensively and extensively on the subject and form a new and innovative concept from it. Instead of allowing our students to become an innovator, our education system made them an imitator and gruesomely killed their inner creativity.


In solidifying my points, I would like to use japan as a case study.

It is widely believed that education is the key element behind the economic boom experienced in japan over the preceded decades. The introduction of universal schooling in japan is presumed to have led to a high level of literacy among the general population in the 1960s and helped them to have enough personnels to field into their various increasingly emerge industries. But lately and sadly, countless of cracks has began to emanate from the hyper praised Japan education system. As gathered in an article written by a professor of economics, Christopher Lingle on freeorg.com, "the stresses in japans' education system have led to some troubling act of student violence and suicide and a more widespread problem is the inhibition of creativity and which is weakening the japan ability to sustain its economic progress". Japan who used to be the economic power house of its continent (Asia) is now loosing its power to the Republic Of China. Instead of playing by the conventional rule: "Education For Development", the Republic Of China plays by "Creativity for Development" And today, china are breaking through in all ramifications. most of the world nations and savvy investors like that of warren buffet and the likes now have their foreign reserve in Reminbi (china's currency) because of its growth potential.

As Sir ken Robinson also asserted at the TEDTALK SHOW in 2006, he noted that:
"Kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. They're not frightened of being wrong ... What we do know is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. By the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity ... And we run companies like this ... [And now we're running education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make]. And the result is we're educating people out of their creative capacity. Human communities depend upon the diversity of talent, not a singular conception of ability."

Of course! Education plays a great role in the era of industrial age, but today, the world is fast changing. gradually, we have shifted from educational age to information (jet) age. informational age where being creative is a must and the education system is not ready to give such.

To conclude my aguement, I would like to ask my opponent the following question:

Had the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Job, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest (the world most famous dropped out) had remained in the academic settings, and had not explore their God given creative talents, what would have been their faith today?.

Thank you.

References/bibliography:
http://www.jesusjazzbuddhism.org/does-education-kill-creativity.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

http://www.debate.org/opinions/does-school-kill-creativity

businessdirectory.com.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate: Winner::LASU by smithsammy(m): 2:56pm On Dec 27, 2013
Smithsammy, second speaker representing Lagos State University. supporting the topic.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate. :::Planning Thread by smithsammy(m): 11:35am On Dec 27, 2013
Fynestboi: .Debaters should come around by 2pm to declare their presence on the debate thread.
when is the lasu/funaab debate starting? You wrote 12am on the debate thread and you said here that all debaters should come around by 2pm. Pls am confused.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate. :::Planning Thread by smithsammy(m): 9:23am On Dec 27, 2013
@ finestboi, pls I want to send my essay to you. Am having bad network on my bb and it may disrupt during the debate. I have tecno phone I can use for rebuttal. Thank u sir.
EducationRe: Nairaland Interschool Debate. :::Planning Thread by smithsammy(m): 9:05am On Dec 27, 2013
pseudonomer: I was thinking I'll be able to make it...I've been very busy this festive period. Today and tomorrow, is so inconvenient for me. My schedule is damn tight. I'm sorry.
which school are u representing?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Manchester City Vs Liverpool (2 - 1) ON 26th December 2013 by smithsammy(m): 8:07pm On Dec 26, 2013
hmm! my gunners are bk to the top

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