Christs Hospital failed at encouraging creative thinking

I do not completely agree with this statement, but before I explain, to what extent Christ’s Hospital failed at encouraging creative thinking, I want to explain what creative thinking is. I think that creative thinking means to look at something in a different kind of way and even from another perspective. Very often it is referred to as thinking outside of the box and to step out of someone’s comfort zone to experience these other ways of thinking.

On the one side, Christ’s Hospital helped to encourage creative thinking through various ways. First of all, there are the subjects that require you to be creative such as Art, Theory of Knowledge and languages where it is obvious. Beside the obvious subjects, in which creativity is required, I think that you need to be creative in all subjects, no matter whether it is a science, a humanity or a language. I think that thinking creative is a part of our every day lives in Christ’s Hospital although the teachers might not tell us when we are thinking in a creative way. As an example, I think that everyone is looking at everything in a different way and that we therefore are thinking creatively when we have discussions in class and talk about our different points of view when we exchange our different perspectives. IB students are especially required to think creatively as it is part of their learners profile and as it makes a part of the CAS-Program that is an essential part of the IB.

On the other hand, Christ`s Hospital is also failing to encourage creative thinking. Before you go to school, you had a much wider range of imagination and you were constantly questioning the world that surrounds you. In school, the teachers tell you that creativity is a good characteristic to have but that you should also stop living in your “dream world” and arrive in the reality and then you stopped to question the world and instead just go with the flow. At school, everyone is taught how to do something perfectly and properly but this is exactly the opposite of creative thinking.

To sum up, this means that Christ’s Hospital is doing both, encouraging creative thinking and discouraging it. I think that Christ’s Hospital should make it more clear, how important “thinking outside of the box is” so that the students pay more attention to it and are more motivated to do this.