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Cultural festival commences in Kuwait |
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Saturday, 02 January 2010 00:21 |
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KUWAIT, Jan 1 (KUNA) -- The Kuwait Scientific Club launched its fifth cultural festival "Smart Kids" at the theater of the club late Thursday, attracting a large number of participants.
Delivering a lecture entitled "How to Develop Your Thinking", Dr Khalid al-Mehndai talked about the way of thinking, critical thinking, and critical education targeting mental development.
He stressed the significance of methods of developing the skills of creative education and creative thoughts, elaborating on the characteristics of creative people.
But, he listed creative thinking obstacles and barriers as parents' low educational levels, familial reluctance to cooperate with school and parental failure to organize kids' time for learning and studying on the one hand and entertainment on the other hand.
He also attacked school failure to develop curricula, to organize activities and trips for schoolchildren, or to invent fresh cultural blueprints that could contribute to student creativity.
Al-Mehnadi regretted that curricula are mainly based on absorption, learning and memorization, rather than creative thinking, and focus on the quantitative, rather than, qualitative, aspect. - Kuna
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