Creativity essay #1

English, per.4

Dear school board,

Can creativity truly be taught? Creativity is developed from inspiration, experience, and improvisation. It's seen as different thinking, to consider the "hidden options" in every situation. If we all sat in a class room and were taught lessons of creativity, it'd no longer be creativity we'd be learning. Creative inventions or ideas are original and specific to that individual. It's not the same as history or English. There isn't a right or wrong.

Today, if a person is good at athletics or smart it's seen as a talent, a gift. But the difference with that and creativity is to be good at athletics you'd have to train in that sport for a long period of time. Also to be really smart you have to study constantly. As for creativity, it comes naturally. Something your born with. We are taught to be smart and trained to be an athlete. This allows us to be tested on these areas. However creativity is not the same. Throughout our history people have made it clear that we are not the same yet we are all equal.

There are different forms of creativity. One can be creative in drawing with colors and designs, in math with manipulation of numbers and shapes. Both are completely different yet still considered as creative. A class can not teach us these things. Yes classes are beneficial in teaching us other subjects but it's not the same. With creativity anything can be great. 

Authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman reported that a test has been distributed to millions to analyze their creativity levels. Test creativity? How does one do that when there are so many different forms of the subject itself. There is no one way of being creative. People today are creative in dance, art, music, building, cooking, etc.... Everyone has their hobbies and are somehow creative in doing them. You can't just tell a person they aren't creative because they didn't pass the "creativity test". Walt Disney, one of the most creative men in history, was fired from his job. His boss claimed that he lacked creativity. Walt Disney made millions of dollars because he created Mickey Mouse which led to Disney productions eventually leading to Disneyland. Walt Disney became a multimillionaire because of his creativity. He is proof that there is no true judgment in whether a person is creative or not.

Why go through the trouble of creating a class about creativity when it cannot be taught. Today many schools need classes like speech, journalism, government, etc. Students have asked and petitioned for other needed classes, it'd be foolish to give them a class that's unrealistic. Creativity cannot be taught, but that's okay. We have built and achieved the impossible making us the most extraordinary race to have ever existed on earth. And we did it without classes on "how to be creative".