Creativity is one of the most important character traits of our time. It forces us to think about positions we hold, the power we have, and the relationships between ourselves and other people as we imagine situations around them. Although I agree that creativity is an extremely important thing that we must uphold, I do not believe that a class in creative thinking wouldn't end well or help increase the levels of creativity in the world. A class in creative thinking is an attempt to structure imagination which ruins its whole point. I have a few questions that I would like the school board to consider when making this decision, and I hope you can listen to my thoughts and perspectives. Firstly, how can creativity truly be measured? By administering this “Torrance Test of Creativity,” wouldn’t researchers therefore be limiting the true expansiveness of creativity by measuring it? …show more content…
Similar to my last point, doesn’t putting a structure on creativity put a damper on its true intention? Creativity is meant to be organic and imaginative, and explicitly teaching it distracts from its individuality from person to person. Additionally, giving creative thinking its own class takes its importance away from other subjects. Creative thinking needs to be applied to all aspects of life, and further all subjects in school. Instead of setting creative thinking aside on its own, why not instead try to incorporate further into other subjects. Classes in school such as math and science are known and even praised by analytical thinkers, but if the school board insists that creative thinking needs to be improved in schools, it would be a better decision to incorporate creativity into existing subjects rather than allowing it to stand on its own. By teaching it alone as one subject, it distracts from its initial goal to integrate imagination and new ways of thinking into what you