What happened to creative learning? Today, many curriculums
are based on what seems to translate to rote memorization and regurgitation of
course material. It seems students are being shortchanged at the hands of a
system that prides itself on test results more-so than the gift of creative learning.
Creativity is the ability to
come up with new ideas, but
schools trains us to suppress our creative
thinking, and we are most often measured by knowledge recall instead of
knowledge creation. For society, it’s
much safer to use tried and true methodologies for testing. It’s unfortunate that
creativity, our highest form of intelligence, is not well-measured.
Studies
show that highly creative people are intelligent but highly intelligent people
are not always creative (check out the Handbook of Creativity, page 261 for more). Creativity is a
higher form of intelligence and the highest level in Maslow’s hierarchy of
needs. Today, we have enough time to focus on self-actualization because we have
moved beyond the need for survival. Now is the time to align with our highest
form of intelligence, and for me that means I should stop thinking about tasty hot
dogs and get creative!
With lovingkindness,
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