SUMMARY FROM A CAREER-RELATED ARTICLE FROM THE GUARDIAN>> Creativity in schools: Every story needs a picture

Hello! Today I’m going to talk about a news I chose of the site: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/30/creativity-schools-childrens-laureate
In this news, Anthony Browne, the new children's laureate, says we should teach children, and adults, to read pictures.

He says it is very important, because to teach children to read images, it stimulates their creativity.

In contrast to the above, we see increasingly less stimulated creativity among children. Thus, when they reach adulthood they say: "I can't draw!" Children, too, as they get older, say the same thing. Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it. A stifling form of self-consciousness invades us, whether it be in drawing, writing, singing or (in the case of Anthony Browne) dancing.

According to the interviewee, If children are encouraged to think that pictures are for babies and that to become educated is to leave images behind and concentrate purely on words, we risk creating a country of visually illiterate adults. Research has shown that we spend, on average, 30 seconds looking at paintings in a museum and considerably longer reading the captions.

Thus, the challenge for educators is to design meaningful educational experiences for children and that they do not hamper their creativity.