For over two-hundred years, school has been one of the most time-consuming parts of childhood. It’s a time to learn new things, make friends, and get smarter, unfortunately, there are side effects of being in school. School – or the prison for good kids – is generally one of the most boring things ever to athletes, artists, young authors, future entrepreneurs, and many other types of people. This is not just a stereotype- school is the worst to many people. Surprisingly, in the 200 years of school, these types of people sometimes dropped out before they were sixteen years old because it was holding them back from their full potential. 

The Finland school system is the number one best school system in the world, one of the reasons is the schedule. Starting at seven years old the Finland students are not tested or given homework until after they are fifteen years old, and spend on average 2.8 hours a day working on homework compared to the United States average being 6.1 hours. A school day is also shorter than in the U.S. at about four hours a day, five days a week with a 15-minute break between classes which studies have shown increases test scores, and decreases mental illness, depression, and bad behavior. Finland students have 25 lessons a week, nine of these classes are creativity-centered classes like creative writing and art. Finland schools also use a guideline method of teaching to give students the ability to learn by themselves instead of being told random facts nobody wants as opposed to the standard checklist.

A scientist named Dr. George tested four-to five-year-old kids on their creativity after no school exposure and 98% of the 1600 kids tested were ranked at creative genius, but six years later when the same exact students took the same test again five years later to find that only 30% of the students were ranked creative genius. And then five years after that, they were tested again and the results came in at only 18% being creative geniuses. The reason we are slowly becoming (creatively) dumber is that we have been taught to have a one-path brain where math always gives you the same answers and we are taught to accept something as true even if it is wrong, the exact same way of thinking that schools have been teaching since the Industrial Revolution over 200 years ago.