Creativity Counts

Creativity cannot be described with a specific definition because creativity varies from person to person. What is creative to one person may not necessarily be creative to another. I believe that creativity is defined by an individual and how they view it and not something that can be defined as a whole. Creativity matters in Education because it helps with personal learning because different people learn in different ways so it takes a certain person to be able to approach learning this way. A way it would help teachers is to be able to think creatively by coming up with new lesson plans that is able to keep the students engaged with what they're learning that day so they will remember it later. The only way to fix creativity is to encourage it and be open to new ideas that others have. An example could be as simple as a math teacher teaching a formula and a student discovering a simpler way to solve the equation but the math teacher shooting it down because it wasn't the way they taught them to do it. If the teacher would have tried to accept the new way of learning and encouraged the students new discoveries then students today wouldn't feel ashamed or scared to try new things and think outside the box to solve a problem and there would be much more opportunities that would open up for the world to see and prosper because of this growth in acceptance.