In the article âSchools are Killing Curiosity,â Berliner discusses how schools are ruining the creative minds of young children. She starts the article off stating that teachers donât allow conversations and observations about unrelated topics. This goes against the research done by the University of Michigan CS Mott Childrenâs Hospital. They state that children do better when they are asking as many questions as possible. The researchers also concluded that the most curious children were the best performers. The lead researcher reported that promoting curiosity in children is an important and under-recognised way of helping the students achieve more academic achievements. An even more surprising research piece from Susan Engel shows that the youngest children in an American elementary school asked between two and five questions an hour. It slowly decreased until it reached the ten and eleven year olds, in which they would go hours without asking a single question. Berliner even went as deep as going to a nursery and sharing the removal of all kids toys that happened. At the beginning stages everyone thought it would be for the worse but, at the end it ended up improving the curiosity of the young children. They started to use the new cardboard boxes, tin cans, old phones, and many more items to create their own toys and games. In conclusion, Berliner believes schools should make more time for students to be creative and to ask more questions.
