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The Creativity Crisis By Po Bronson And Ashley Merryman

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“The Creativity Crisis,” was an article published in July of 2010 by authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman; advocating that creativity has diminished nationwide. Creativity is the ideas or process of one person’s intricate mind span. Primarily thoughts through interpretations creativity is a skill that shouldn’t be taken serious. Essentially creativity is meaningless because it is one’s beliefs, can vary from people across the nation, and will be difficult to judge or grade if taught in school; so the idea of a creativity class would be irrelevant.
Everyone is capable of thinking independently, but if so why is there a complex debate over creativity? The insight that is obtainable in people’s minds are more than capable to dish out creative thoughts without being taught. Creativity is the understanding that the human brain infers depending on who’s …show more content…

“Younger children in America… the decline is most serious.” Is a quote from Professor Kyung Hee Kim over the issue of creativity declines across the nation, but if you examine a first world country such as the United States it is overrun with electronics? There is no reason for Americans to excel in creativity, let alone a class over it when our technical advances make it effortless for us to generate concepts or be told what is right. A third world country is likely to score higher on the Torrance Test (a creativity test that has been administered to millions worldwide in 50 languages) than the American public because of the rugged circumstances they face to survive. They learn to be creative as they do not obtain the education American children do, so there is no significant reason for the public to pressure a class over creativity when it is a natural instinct instilled in someone. It all comes down to the amount of effort a person applies creatively over being taught how to be

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