REFUTATION and CONCESSION

Instructions:
1. Answer the following questions.
2. Write your own refutation and concession.

1. What is my thesis?
Creativity is learned in school not killed in Korea.
(I think my counter-argument is a case for Korea. Thus, I'll narrow the thests. I'll correct my written paragraph to be appropriate for my new thesis. SO, don't worry.)

2. What is the opposite position?
School kills creativity

3. What arguments can I anticipate?
a) School doesn't accept mistakes, steps for creativity
b) School cares only subjects with brain and ignores others.

4. How will I counter those arguments?

a) It depends on teacher not school
b) Nowadays, there are efforts to help students find their interest among all fields by allowing them to spend 1 year or 1 semester without sudying for exam

My Refutation and Concession

 Thanks to Ken Robinson's awesome speech on TED,How school kills creativity, I'm writing an essay. But It's true that his lecture conveys opposite arguments from my position, creativity is learned in school. His main points are not allowing students to make mistakes, and ignoring the subjects other than the subjects done by brain.

 Firstable, whether allowing students to make mistakes or not depends on teacher not school, or education system of Korea. According to the article,30 Ways To Promote Creativity in Your Classroom, it suggest teachers to allow their room for mistakes. It means teacher is the person in charge for allowing students to make mistakes. Also, from my personal experience, even in the same school, some teachers are generous for and even welcome mistakes, but some teachers are rigorous for mistakes, making students stand-up when they make mistakes. Thus, insisting school doesn't accept mistakes sounds absurd. If there's a problem on whether accepting mistakes or not, teachers are respnsible for that, not schools.

 Secondly,he said school always have priority on math, English, Korean, Science or Social studies. Thus, children who are not interested in those are considered as troublemakers, cannot have opportunity to show their competence in other fields, and suppressed to not do what they are interested in. However, nowdays, schools in Korea help students to find their interest among all fields by allowing them to spend 1 year or 1 semester without studying for exam in middle school. I'll use an example of fictional girl 'Jisu'. Jisu find her interests in dance through Korean transition year by attending dance and others course. After she find her interests, she can enter special-purpose high school such as Seoul performing arts high school. Also, for students who are intersted in brainy-subjects, school is certainly the best place to grow their creativity. Thus, it's absurd to say that Korean school kill students' creativity.