Transforming Education Through Creativity: A Lesson from Verona’ s Palazzo Maffei Museum
Are our current forms of educating people really effective?
Do systems that organise young people arbitrarily by age, teach knowledge through a fixed curriculum of isolated subjects, and assess with uniform testing, optimise human potential?
Is education as we know it the most engaging way to develop the skills with which we are born?
Or is our natural capacity to learn and create more often than not dampened or even erased by mass education systems which treat everyone as if they were the same?
Our education systems construct a relationship with learning and expertise where we are taught to accept that some people hold the knowledge and expertise, and other people do not. It is for this reason that almost all formal education is a transactional relationship. The student is reverently waiting for the knowledge to be bestowed upon them so they can regurgitate it for the next transactional step, the next stage of education, a qualification, or a job.
We first learn to be passive through our education systems, even accepting things that are contrary to our core values, and we learn to take this through the rest of our lives by remaining passive in many other forums, and especially our workplaces…
