Education

Whether Education kills creativity or not is depends on the education system. Most of students receive compulsory education, and I think Japanese compulsory education kill students creativity, because Japanese compulsory education determine who is better person with test score or knowledge, also they often constrain to students the thought, behavior, or rules. If students made mistakes, or did something wrong from the rules, teacher gets really angry.  For example, when I was studying in elementary school, teacher told us to draw a mountain and cherry blossoms. I tried to draw a mountain with green color and cherry blossom with a lot of little pink flower. But the teacher told us to draw a mountain with blue little dots, and cherry blossoms with pink little dots. I asked to the teacher why does a mountain need to be blue? Also I said flower is not dots. The teacher was disagreeably surprised and she got angry. It has been 13 years past from this memory, but I still don’t understand why she got angry. Finally, student pictures were posted on the wall, and they were all same pictures. Therefore this education killed student ideas, imaginations and characters that are important to be creative. However every education does not kill creativity, because there is several kinds of education, science, art, music, dance and so on.  The important thing to be creative is to choose the education by yourself that you interested in and, which can find your character or talent and help to improve these. For instance, I chose to study in America, because I wanted to study music and other subjects, but in Japan we can’t study music and other subjects like business or law in same school. So we need to choose a music college or a university. I hate this system. I always try to choose the education that looks good for my future, and this is my way to be creative as a student.

Revising or rethinking / reworking

Revising or rethinking / reworking is necessary for people to improving ourselves or make something better, also in my opinion, to check on the past value that we had, or our experience, will be kind of revising or rethinking / reworking too, because this action makes our behavior or works much further better. Revising or rethinking / reworking is important for my life. Especially, it is important for my campus life. I have been living in America since July, and I have had a lot of language mistakes and culture difference, because I am international student, but each time revising and rethinking have helped me a lot to improve my English. Also revising or rethinking / reworking is necessary to improve my piano performance.

My campus life past over a month, and I still don’t understand what the faculty members are speaking in class, also I do not understand what students are talking in class or with their friends. Especially, writing assignment is very hard to me. I always have some grammar errors, and using wrong words for the sentence, so I try to revise and rethink two or three times each assignment. When I revise some thing  always try to be other person, because when I’ve finished the assignment, that assignment is perfect to me. After finished revising, I still have a lot of mistakes, but this action makes my English skills better. 

I chose music as a minor in this university, and I sometimes practice some pieces, I usually record my best one each day, then listen to the performance and write down where I had mistakes and where I should change or revise, and try to fix mistakes and improve my performance totally. Recording is useful to revise and rethink my performance, because I can listen to my performance objectively.

Therefore, revising or rethinking / reworking is important to improve my English and piano performance.