The Brain Is a Muscle Too

Over the last few years a big issue that has always been a topic of conversation among Critical Pedagogy students has been the issue of fostering creativity within students. Presently, many studies have shown that over the years, students are losing their creativity; their active imaginations. These imaginations which at one time, were running rampant with ideas, now stifled by the subconciously over-bearing affects of today's media.

There was once a time in our country, where you could place a sheet of paper and a pencil in front of a student and they could create one of the most beautiful works of art. Children had to keep themselves entertained; build their concentration level merely on the little resources accessible to them. Not anymore. Students and some adults alike, have become nothing but walking vegetables; people waiting for the next task that is to be laid before them, guidlines and spoon-feeding in all.

Turning on the television, and watching the news, reading the paper, all you hear about are new-found learning disorders and attention-deficit disorders. In reality I recognize that these disorders are real, but for the most part these disorders are brought to people in part by a parent/guardian's laziness in their upbringing, and not enough time spent on building the person's concentration level when they were a younger child. The brain is a muscle, just as we have in our arms and legs, and it needs to be worked out too. It needs to have the opportunity to allow it's owner brainpower.

All in all, I understand that there are learning disorders that really do exist, and that some people actually do have them. I only bring this up because as time progresses, children are slowly losing their sparks. Instead of being vessels, waiting to get filled with knowledge, children are becoming nothing but walking vegetables; mindless and free of the creativity that their minds unknowingly, and greatly crave.