Everyone is born with Creative Instinct
Shail Choyal |
TEDxYouth@NMS
• August 2018
Dr. Shail Kumar Choyal is an eminent artist, painter and printmaker. He spoke to us about creative people being seen as 'different’, and how instead, everyone has creativity in them which needs to be nurtured by adults. When 90% of Rajasthani students can't appreciate any aesthetics around them, he wonders about how creativity is really developed. Different individuals have different skills - he used the analogy of different animals being asked to climb a tree and failing to explain why students in Kota find themselves unable to express themselves and commit suicide. Comparisons between students rob them of freedom and imagination, things that you need for each profession. He shared a story about a teacher teaching kids the English alphabet using words from their regional language, making students in a remote villages bring the ABCs to life.