Catherine Courage Taed-Talk

The beauty of creativity is that it is abstract, yet ubiquitous: in art, music or how one decides to compose an essay. However, creativity has recently been declining among the human population. According to an article, named, “The Creativity Crisis,” by Newsweek.com in July 2010, authors, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, state, “the Torrance Test … indicates that the public’s “creativity quotient” has steadily crept downward since 1990” (Prompt 1). Bronson and Merryman report that the test, which evaluates one’s creativity, had been dispensed to myriads of people across the globe, and have concluded that creativity has been slowly diminishing. Kyung Hee Kim, professor at the College of William and Mary, also comments that this is most prevalent and grave among students from kindergarten through sixth grade (Prompt 1). Consequently, society, or in this case, the world fears that current students and future generations will not be nourished with the creativity required to thrive as individuals, affecting the world as a whole. Ultimately, this poses the question whether a creative thinking class, which solely focuses on the education of creativity, should be taught in the school. This school should impose a creative thinking class, due to the fact creativity is a vital element for the future and is the solution to the creative crisis.

In the context of creativity’s stated definition, we will proceed to group our arguments into three themes of factors: cognitive ability, expertise training, and environmental conditions. The human brain is highly adaptable and can continue to develop new cognitive abilities, even past adulthood (Norman, 2015). Proper cognitive expertise and training can help workers produce and operate in ingenious ways (Ginamarie, Lertiz & Mumford, 2004). Finally, the working environment can both motivate or stifle creative output. Managers can influence all three components: expertise, thinking skills, and motivation (Amabile, 1998).

Are we underestimating the importance of creativity? Many times children are not encouraged at home to be creative, either because their parents restrict their ideas, fill their decisions with pessimism, or simply do not pay attention to this matter. However, creativity is a skill that makes the human being flexible and resourceful as well as helping them see problems differently and identify solutions more easily. Many times education will directly contradict creativity. It destroys the innovation of ideas, and stifles the imagination, while claiming it is “teaching.” Sometimes entering a classroom becomes the closest thing to entering a time machine since our teaching methods differ very little from those of ancient Rome over 2000 years ago. In Ted Talk “How Schools Kills Creativity” by Ken Robinson and the article “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood” by Leon Botstein, two different opinions about the current educational system are presented. While Robinson believes that the schooling system should work to promote creativity, Botstein says that the concept of a high and middle school is useless and should be abolished. However they both agree on reform. As a parent, I have always been concerned about my daughters’ education, and have always believed, like Robinson and Botstein, that our educational system needs a change.

Jazmin Herrera Professor Dominquez English 301-11 17 September 2014 Essay 1- Rhetoric Analysis In Do Schools Kill Creativity?, Sir Ken Robinson argues a case for creating an education that nurtures creativity in a TED talk. TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design), is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation. In which, Sir Ken Robinson, an English author and speaker, attended and spoke during a TED talk in February of 2006 about the educational system and creativity.

Ken Robinson is a university professor who challenges the way we are educating our children. He uses passion and humor to emphasize the importance of creativity and the need for a learning revolution. From Ken’s personal experiences, he has concluded professors tend to only live from their heads, and “slightly more to one side”. Having these professors responsible to teach us what is right and wrong is no dought steering new generations views on what we should value. Creativity is becoming stigmatized, causing individuals to ignore many career paths and conform to our set standards. He states, “we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather we get educated out of it”. There are so many more types of intelligence, however we categorize one above all. Potential talent is being wasted.

This Ted Talk lays out an argument that creativity is not only severely lacking in modern education but that it has been systematically marginalized by society during and after the industrial revolution. The speaker also contends that encouraging creativity in contemporary learning will enhance society in yet unknown ways. He reinforces his ideas with very poignant stories that show the inconsistencies with thinking on creativity versus reason and logic.

Do Schools Kill Creativity? TED is a non-profit organization that serves to present ideas that are worth spreading through strong rhetoric and persuasive appeals. In his eminent Ted Talk, Sir Ken Robinson discusses how public education systems today disregard creativity as an important component within the academic growth of students. Robinson focuses on the importance of creativity by creating a variety of arguments, which persuades the audience to take action upon this heavily ignored issue. His use of pathos, ethos, and logos makes an entertaining case for creating an education system that nurtures rather than undermines creativity. Throughout his speech, Robinson emphasizes pathos by his use of humor and discussion of personal

Creativity is the ability to produce work that is original yet appropriate-something that others have not thought of but that is useful in some way (Kaufman & Sternberg, 2007; Sternberg, 2003b). The significance of creativity for children’s development is very high. Creativity helps children develop the overall areas of development; physical, social, emotional, language and cognitive. A child learns to innovate as well as invent while doing creative activities. Through creative practices child finds multiple methods of looking at various situations, assessing these situations and finding new solutions. Children often desire to be able to express themselves without any

Although creativity is not seen as salient in America, it is critical to the stability of progress and resolution of problems; therefore, adults must provide children with more opportunities to innovate.

The creative industries are steeped in stereotypes and generalisations; it is possible to argue that these assumptions and generalisations have the ability to impact on creativity and creative work. There are generalizations that exist that state that creatives are intrinsically motivated and managers extrinsically motivated. Impacts surrounding these generalisations, such as stereotyping, constricting creative inspiration and stress placed on creatives limiting creative work will be further discussed in this essay. The final argument can be made that in fact these generalisations do not apply to all creatives and to all management personal, and that it is a process that involves both sides evaluating, and moulding their styles to certain management

Creativity can be defined as “showing imagination and originality as well as routine skill”. It used to be associated with only cultural aspects such as drama and art but nowadays, in order to succeed in the business environment, one needs a competitive advantage which is achieved by thinking outside the norm.

The term creativity is used for the purpose of describing the ability that is concerned with the process of creating something new or valuable. This ability allows a person to surpass the rules, practices, methods, forms or similar kind of activities that the traditional society may be performing at that time. Creativity is one of the most important things that have allowed the people of the society to move forward and urge for development. All the development that has been made in various aspects of human life can be directly connected with the creativity. All the industry leaders of the world have secured this place because of the level of creativity and innovation that they showed. They used this creativity for creating something new that has allowed them to develop completely new methods for this purpose.

This paper will focus on the idea that managing creativity is not an oxymoron if the right approaches are implemented. Creativity is necessary for new innovation to happen, but a business’s foremost focus is on growth and profit (Howkins, 2002). Managing creativity is the first step to cultivating new forms of innovation. For this to happen most successfully acknowledging characteristics consistent to creative individuals and applying a specific manager or leader who can

It is visible in M&S’s operational process that understanding the creative processes along with fostering those involving the employees, often results in leaders find them selves at the top not only within the organisation , but also within the industries as well ( Purvanova et al., 2006 ). By such processes , the leaders make them selves enable to know how to adapt the creativity along with developing their own workforce by which development of new services or products can be implemented successfully . In such cases , creativity often considered by the leaders as a form of technique as well as intelligences (Davidson et.al. , 2004 ).

The term "creativity" is close to the concept of art. People usually conclude that the latter is given by birth, while the creative approach can be developed. It would seem that creativity is a particular talent, and not everyone can use it. Despite this assumption, in fact, it is possible to work out this type of response to the problems. It is only vital to find the right approach and develop specific tactics aimed at the formation of creative thinking. Time goes fast, rapidly evolving technology going forward and the progress requires human attention and concentration, flexible thinking, and quick adaptation to what is happening. The world is constantly in need of interchange of different problems with the help of creative approaches. Cathy Davidson, the author of "Project Classroom Makeover", provides a significant work on the role of creative thinking and its transformation due to changes in the digital era, as well as the process of forming of the self- confidence during the initial stages of education with the development of imagination and teamwork. In this work, the scientist insists on reconsidering of the very concept of education because of the development of digital age, multitasking society, the influence of the Internet. Also, the author insists on the development of such qualities as initiative, mobility, flexibility, the need for self-development, readiness for unconventional and creative solutions. In this regard, the objective necessity becomes the