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| Everyone is Creative |
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| Written by Laurence |
| Tuesday, 17 February 2009 13:43 |
 Creativity today is often considered as limited to people learning about or working in the performing arts, design, painting etc. Indeed, people employed in these sectors are clearly highly talented and have worked very hard to get to where they are in often very competitive professions.
Yet the idea that everyone else is not creative in their professions is clearly false. We all have new ideas that we can implement and help us in our work and personal growth. Increasingly, experts are suggesting that the future of our economies lies in our ability to be creative - in may ways to be more creative than other economies. The companies that have been very successful recently have in general displayed a lot of creativity - Apple Computers is the shining example of this. They command a large premium for their products because they work much better than the competition and of course look much better. As we understand how we need to work in the future we need to ask ourselves whether our education system is meeting those needs. Today, the emphasis is clearly placed on mathematics and literacy which will always remain incredibly important. Without having learnt these thoroughly I wouldn’t be writing this article today. What should be the emphasis in the future? Sir Ken Robinson is an acclaimed creativity expert who has worked for many governments including that of the UK. He points out that today creativity is considered relatively unimportant and is down at the bottom of the list after the humanities. Sir Ken suggests that creativity should have the same importance as maths and literacy.  Yet creativity as a subject is much harder to grasp than maths and literacy. It’s much harder to track and measure, it’s much less solid and touchable. Will our current education systems be able to adapt as required? It’s the big challenge that faces us and as members of society, parents and employers it’s our duty to push this up the agenda. We need to comment on blogs, write to education secretaries, talk to school boards and teachers - the more society is aware, the more the changes that are necessary will take place. To learn more about different educational systems read related articles in the FamilyZen section . Take the time to listen to this video of Sir Ken Robinison at the TED conference in 2006 Leave your experiences and thoughts in our comments section below.          |
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