Schools (Don't?) Matter, Nor Does Creativity
Okay, I'll confess to being less than tactful most of the time. But I gotta tell you, I'm pretty sick of one particular complaint that I hear (rather, read) again and again on education sites and FB pages dedicated to parent organizations against testing regimes in public education: "Your stealing my child's creativity!"
First, there's no such thing.
First, there's no such thing.
...since the criterion of creativity cannot distinguish between the artist and the nonartist, anyone who calls himself an artist is an artist, and anyone who calls himself creative is creative.
Innovation is the norm of human behavior. The human brain is so constructed that nobody ever gets anything right. Innovation which is validated by the culture or by some subculture within the
