A dangerous myth of today's educational standards

Children are born with different amounts of the intelligence, which we use in academic studies. Therefore naturally some of them perform well at school and some do not.

There is a dangerous myth still present concerning educational innovation and it is called the standardization movement. Too many policymakers and parents expect of and for their children such high standards, which actually kill their creative intelligence, the one, which we use in our lives to develop. Not the academic one, the organic one.

"If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination and creativity, don't be surprised if that's what it does." - emphasizes the trivial consequence Sir Ken Robinson in his 2016 book of Creative Schools.

The industrial character of public education brings us back to the industrial revolution's needs of 1830s' additionally to the question: why do we still want to satisfy them via further standardization and killing diversity in intelligence.

Best, Fatima