Creativity

"Creativity is widely regarded as a desirable quality in many domains: music, the visual and performing arts, literature, science, technology – and even in finance and business. [...]There is however a tension, even a paradox, within the educational domain. Creativity is at the heart of learning. But it is not usually at the heart of education. Institutionalized education depends on control, measurement and conformity. Creativity (rather like its cousin, Critical Thinking) is anathema to systems based on control. However much they claim to be promoting creativity, institutions are dependent on a control paradigm, and thus resistant to anything which threatens that control. Creativity will always have a hard time of it."