At first, I had such a hard time finding a topic to write about. I walked around outside and looked at everything, but couldn't find anything that piqued my interest yet. My mother always told me that when I was younger, I was constantly asking questions, so I wondered why I had trouble coming up with a question to ask now. Later that day two of my cousins ​​came to my house, one was five and the other was eight. My five-year-old cousin kept asking questions and I could tell his older sister was really annoyed by it, but I remembered a time when she was in his shoes and wondered why that had changed. Then my five year old cousin told me how much he loved school and my older cousin told me she hated school now. These observations led me to the conclusion that as children progress to higher levels of education, their curiosity and creativity begin to decline. That's because schools aren't doing enough to cultivate curiosity and creativity. When a child first enters kindergarten, once he gets over his shyness and nervousness, everything is fine. They can say the ABCs and count several times a day, but it's mostly about having fun and expressing themselves. I've never heard a five-year-old tell me they don't like going to school. Yet as children grow and progress through the higher grades, the idea of ​​“having fun” and “expressing themselves” becomes a distant memory. Teachers start looking for specific answers and give you specific ways to find your answers. The child who tries to find a different approach to questions is quickly labeled a “troublemaker.” I think it's because creativity and curiosity are seen as something "cute" and acceptable in younger grades. of paper...many others decided that formal education was not for them. It's sad that this caused them to drop out because I feel like the school has something for everyone if implemented correctly. Yet the point I'm trying to make here is that they were still successful. They relied on their creativity and curiosity to guide them in the career they wanted to pursue and things worked out very well for them. I firmly believe that we would have many more success stories like these if creativity and curiosity were cultivated in schools. Childhood Classrooms USA, 1991, printed Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D, "3 Ideas to Stop Schools from Killing Creativity, Curiosity, and Critical Thinking" Psychology Today October 13, 2013