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2021 年 6 月(第三套) Everyone Needs Creativity 所有人都需要创造力

You can't see it, smell it, or hear it, and people disagree on how precisely to define it, or where exactly it comes from.

It isn't a school subject or an academic discipline, but it can be learned.

It is a quality that is required of artists, but it is also present in the lives of scientists and entrepreneurs.

All of us benefit from it and we thrive mentally and spiritually when we are able to wield it.

It is a delicate thing, easily stamped out; in fact, it flourishes most fully when people are playful and childlike.

Meanwhile, it works best in conjunction with deep knowledge and expertise.

This mysteriousbut teachablequality is creativity, the subject of a recently-published report by Durham Commission on Creativity and Education.

The report concludes that creativity should not inhabit the school curriculum only as it relates to drama, music, art and other obviously creative subjects, but that creative thinking ought to run through all of school life, infusing the way humanities and natural sciences are learned.

The authors, who focus on education in England, offer a number of sensible recommendations, some of which are an attempt to alleviate the uninspiring and fact-based approach to education that has crept into policy in recent years.

When children are regarded as vessels to be filled with facts, creativity does not prosper; nor does it when teachers' sole objective is coaching children towards exams.

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