Topic > Persuasive Essay on Creativity in Schools - 2058

As a teacher, Marvin Bartle states in “Eleven Classroom Creativity Killers,” “Assessment without logic provides no useful information that helps a person be creative” (Bartle). Within schools, teachers do not provide sufficient practical experiences to students. In lessons like chemistry, the practical aspect is still present, but more and more notes are taken while students are at their desks looking at a white board while the teacher talks about electrons, significant figures and chromatography. As Bartle writes, “Hands-on practice is more creative and an even better way to remember what you learn” (Bartle). So why do more and more teachers practice the demonstration method and not the practical approach? These two “creativity killers,” as Bartle calls them, could be stopped and thus introduce much more creativity into the classroom. When a teacher realizes that the teaching method he is using is wrong, why not change