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Achieving Extraordinary Ends: An Essay on Creativity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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Achieving Extraordinary Ends: An Essay on Creativity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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CREATIVITY HAS become a popular slogan in contemporary education
and society. We are urged continually to be creative with respect
to all our endeavours - to be creative writers, creative cooks,
creative teachers, creative thinkers, creative lovers. Ascribing
creativity has become one of the principal means of praising,
approving, and commending. Yet in the process of becoming a
universal term of positive evaluation, the concept of creativity
has tended to lose its connection with its origins. We have
forgotten that creativity has to do with creating, that it is
connected with great achievements and quality productions. And as a
consequence of this lapse of memory, most attempts to foster
creativity in educational practice have been misleading at best and
dangerous at worst. We have come to settle for the encouragement of
certain personality traits at the expense of the encouragement of
significant achievement - and this in the name of creativity. If we
are not clear about what is meant by creativity, we may end up
sacrificing creativity precisely in the process of trying to foster
it. This book is an attempt to be clear about creativity. The
Context For the poet is an airy thing, a winged and a holy thing;
and he cannot make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of
his senses and no mind is left in him. l Plato If creativity and
its growth are to be viewed scientifically, creativity must be
defined in a way that permits objective observation and measurement
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