Saturday, December 26, 2009

What Makes Me Creative? A very important point to ponder this new year...

Society teaches the creativity out of our students.  If X, then Y is easy to teach.  If X, then Y gets results.  It generates tangible and immediate ROI.  Do this and get that result. Take an alternative path and risk failure or – even worse – ridicule.  Research creative history and learn what got rewarded and what was ignored.  Teach high craft and call it high art.  Creativity is too soft and round; there is nothing to grab onto.  There are often no clean results to judge.  Creativity is messy but we all crave the rewards.

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