It seems to me that these days we do not grow into creativity we grow out of it. In my experience the education system has a strong tendency to try to squash creativity and focus instead on teaching students better ways to regurgitate facts. Students are taught that there are right and wrong answers. However, when we teach children this they are never able to come up with anything creative.Intelligence is as diverse and dynamic as the individual student. Educators need to find new ways to bring out these individual types of intelligence in students. Trying new ways is the only way most students could even discover their talents. Students are taught in our schools today that the arts, music and dance aren’t worth exploring because they have no potential for employment. This mentality is evident more everyday as states and cities are cutting back on budgets and cutting the arts right on out. The problem is without the art and integrating the use of multiple types of intelligence the next generation will be devoid of uniqueness and hinder the possibility for creativity. Without creativity nothing new will be discovered in this world.
My question is how important do you think creativity is in the education of our students? What are some ways we as teachers can help students harness and build their creative intelligence?
