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Truth of Creativity

 Most of us once noticed that we are getting in trouble when there is a pressure to think more creatively. For example, in the school, when we draw an imaginary picture, it is very difficult to decide what to draw because there is some burden to be unique and different from others. Why are you still suffering from thinking creative? Recently, many schools encourage creative classroom and innovative education but students remain as they are. There, I wonder if we become creative by education. Think it this way - Not everyone can become creative. Many of you are trying to make your children creative by teaching playing the piano and drawing but are they not all creative. Although we emphasize being creative, creativity is not learned.

  We confront many difficulties throughout the life and we continuously find out solutions to deal with those matters. It, however, is not always possible. All of us once have had difficulty finding solutions. In this circumstances, 'creativity' can solve the problem. Creativity is a mental characteristic that allows a person to think outside of the box, which results in innovative or different approaches to a particular task. With only this definition, you can notice its existence. The ability reveals its magnificence when it deals with problems. There are seven steps to solving a problem. First, find the right problems to solve. Second, define the problem. Third, analyse the problem. Then, develop opportunities. Select the best solution and implement. Lastly, evaluate and learn what was effective in solving a problem. If you want to do well in these steps, you should use your creativity.

  Many of us don't have doubt on the creativity, and they just want to know how to develop it. That is the common phenomenon because we often think highly of something novel and innovative. As we have eager to be better than others, their desires to be creative also increase and this reflects today's society encouraging novelty. However, we don't pay much attention to the basic question. Are they sure it is possible to learn becoming creative? If there is no problem, why can't everyone displays that ability? Though these considerations, I thought that we need to take this more seriously.

  Though 'creativity' has diverse opinions upon its possibility to develop, it is quite easy to discover examples that will support my arguments. If a person can be taught how to think creatively, everyone can become like Einstein and Shakespeare. Almost everyone will accept that it can't be. Then I'll give you some examples to help your understanding on this. Most of you have once learned playing the piano, usually by your parents' purpose to bring up your creativity. However, not everyone becomes a pianist. Also, if you know how to deal with lumber and tools, you cannot make magnificent chairs that are greatly appreciated by others. In addition, from creative writing professor Hanif Kureishi, some students don't know how to write a story, even though they took creative writing class altogether. (Flood, 2014). Then he said that such kind of lecture is "a waste of time". (Kureishi, 2014). This is because they are not natural writers. Also, Michael Sandel, a professor at Havard University stated following:

 "we cannot teach creativity because it is a habit of mind. It can be nurtured when students take   Humanities and Arts classes and make an effort continuously to think freely. " (Sandel, 2014)

  Most are not very aware the concept of creativity, but it is important when you understand this argument. Creativity is not a discipline, but a kind of a personal characteristic. Also, It is not a conventional 'skill' like playing the piano and making furniture as I already said above that you can pay to have taught to you. Instead, you have to know that we all possess creativity but its degree is different. These difference make gap between normal people and famous artists. People should recognize that they have contradictory attitude toward 'teaching creative' that they try to make their children become more creative and accept its impossibility at once. As everyone has their amount of creative ability, we don't know who have outstanding ability. However, those examples and expert opinion are showing that teaching creativity is impossible. 

  I have many supporters for my arguments, but there are some opponents at the same time as everything always has both different opinions. Some say that they can improve one's creativity by providing a proper environment. They also stated that they can technically bring up creativity in some parts. (Naiman, 2014). It is true because no one knows who have an innate ability to become a prodigy. However, It does not always happen. This indicates that creativity is eventually not the thing that can be developed. They are just given information that let them know how to use 'tools', not the ability to 'think creatively'. That is opponents' have no direct connection in teaching creativity.

  It is sometimes common, or sometimes unfamiliar to deal with creativity. This is because we often overlook its properties. People have an unconscious mind that they can develop their ability to be more creative, so they look for 'creative class' and 'creative teaching'. However, I don't agree with this. Everyone has creativity but its degree is all different to individual and not always creative teaching method is directly related to creative results. That is we cannot learn to be creative. Recently, society requires to be more innovative and ingenious. If you have deep consideration on this argument and correctly understand our limitation of creativity, you can obtain what our society expect to you. 

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