Imagine an eight-year-old girl, full of ideas and curiosity, unsettled and hyperactive, and the most important quality is that she is not afraid of being wrong. She has a big juicy brain full of original and authentic beliefs, but probably for some people she is extremely annoying. Suddenly, some teacher at math class says she has a learning disorder because she is not able to concentrate. He says that probably she has ADHD. Next, her mom takes her to see a specialist, now she is watching how mom explains everything that is supposedly wrong to the doctor, but he turns on the radio that was sitting on his desk. Suddenly she feels her feet randomly moving and she cannot stop. They are watching her and for a few minutes she feels free and out of the world. The doctor notices her energy and fantastic potential, and he convinces mom to take her to a dance school.
At the moment she enters to the room, she notices it is full of people like her. People who cannot sit still, people who have to move to think. They did ballet, tap, and jazz. Eventually she finds herself auditioning for the Royal Ballet School for the first dancer and with a stunning solo. Next, she is graduating and founding her own academy. She is a legend, a pleasure to millions of watchers, and yes probably multimillionaire. Somebody else might have put her on medication and told her to calm down.
The education system gradually kills children's individuality and creativity because it does not allow them to think outside the box. This means that as a result of the society's beliefs, children tend to think that a simple report card is the most important determining factor to consider when judging the worth of their life; therefore, it affects significantly the self-esteem affecting an important aspect of creativity, which is the fear of being wrong. "Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value" (Sinclair 2013).
