Education needs creative clean-out

YOUR “time for an honest discussion” editorial on educational reform (Dec 23) rightly welcomes the current widespread airing of re-assessment, re-evaluation and recalibration of the stagnating education system.

Apart from the calculated predictability of Leaving Cert questions suiting rote learners garnering high points, the whole swathe of the educational spectrum from primary to tertiary needs a full and creative clean-out — creativity being an absolutely key and core component of transformation.

This isn’t only to do with artistic creativity as we experience it through the performing, poetic or visual arts (though they all provide vital lifelines), but an integrated creativity of all intellectual, experiential and practical perspectives, within an engaging interpersonal template of endeavour involving student/pupil and teacher/lecturer.