Creativity: Response to Ken Robinson

Creativity can be taught to a certain limit. For example a teacher can give his or her own personal example of what is and is not creative. It is the role of teachers to evaluate and encourage students’ creativeness. In order to so, a teacher directs the student to certain paths that helps a student to develop ideas. Yet, the teacher cannot create their student’s ideas for them. Students have to be solely responsible for their creativeness. There is not simply one right answer in the area of creativity. In most situations, creativeness has an endless slew of answers one can develop. A teacher cannot teach creativeness in the same respect as a teacher would teach math, science or English.

Further, Ken Robinson said that he feels that creativity is as important as literature. I agree with his comparison. However, creativity is not on the same level as literature, music, math or any other school subject. Creativity is a tool that both students use to embellish. For example, one can use it to compose songs or write poems.

Moreover, creativity is vital to the 21st century. Creativity is something one uses in an attempt to improve and enrich his or her surroundings. These impacts can be extremely large or tiny. They can range from the creation of a novel to a short story written by a young child. There’s nothing wrong with the attempt to improve one’s life.