Creativity

I believe that creativity is one of the most undervalued skills in the 21st centuries. Today we often stress the importance of reading, writing, and math, but we never express the importance of creativity and imagination. As children I believe we are born creative. We come up with all these crazy answers to questions we don't know. As you get older than inventive answer that a child makes up is not valued. In society we only want the right answer. 

I don't blame teachers for wanting direct answers. For one thing it is easier to grade and true and false question rather than one on creativity. However creativity in my opinion should be part of a teacher's curriculum. Art classes, dance, and music classes are just as important as reading and math in my opinion. A combination of both creative and traditional education classes can be used to do great things. For example think about J.K Rowling. If schools only stressed writing skills, but not creativity she would have never written Harry Potter. Creativity is essential to the 21st century. We are constantly evolving. Everyday new inventions are being made. One's creativity could find the cure for cancer. Another's creativity could find a way to feed the poor. Creativity can change lives.

I think as teacher's we really need to encourage creativity. One way to do so is that you could teach your students the importance of it. Show them examples on how one's creativity changed the world, how this silly idea of someone's made a huge difference. Make sure they know that their creativity, idea's, and imagination are valued.  Make assignments in which there is no right answer and students are allowed to be creative and do whatever they want to.