The reason children today are creatively stifled is because of the influences of unregulated media from an early age. This is far more prevalent in the USA than it is in other countries (who have regulations), but regardless, increase in media marketing aimed at kids destroys their ability to think beyond anything except brand allegiance.MintyTheCat wrote:I agree, it seems that education over in the UK losing its value ever more - how many "A Stars" do we see each year. When I was younger it was literally impossible to get an "A" in anythingSkykid wrote:The best thing to do is be in business for ourselves. If an archaic educational system didn't stifle creativity and march you into an office job in which you get to waste your life earning money for some already rich bastard, it could be a very enterprising world.
If a kid wants to make videogames I see no purpose in spending his youth being force fed an out of date curriculum when he could learn programming during the prime of his mental capacity, and then fulfil his dream by growing up as a highly desirable expert in the field. It may be a hard job, but most people end up doing things they have no passion for just to have an income. That makes for a radically boring life.
The more I work the more I want to work for myself.
I learned to program as a kid and it has given me a career and an education but I do agree, kids are better at picking things up than adults who have often already shut their minds down.
I do enjoy my job and what's more I use the skills I have to work on my own projects - I have a game on the go at the moment if any of you know any pixel artists.
If you're interested in knowing how it works (and if you ever have kids, how corporations will effectively make your life very difficult), I highly recommend watching this film, it's a good one:
http://www.youtube.com/user/futureprodu ... uUU7cjfcdM
If that's too much of your time, then this 20 minute talk by Sir Ken Robinson is extremely worthwhile (Called "Do Schools Kill Creativity?") He's a pretty funny guy too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY