Teaching Creativity

***Art teachers ask me why should we teach students to reinvent the wheel.  Good question.  Is the making of wheels more important than the ability to invent the wheel? For educators interested in the formation of the mind, learning how to think always trumps knowing an answer.

***You can survive without knowing how to read, but reading is extremely helpful. You can be creative without knowing how to draw, but  Drawing is extremely helpful when doing creative work. Researchers have found that careful visual observation drawing is done in the right hemisphere of the brain where intuitive and creative thinking occurs. Rational thinking, on the other hand, happens in the left hemisphere of the brain where the trite schematic drawings are stored in the brain (childlike stick figures, triangle nose images, etc.). This may indicate that observation drawing practice develops the intuitive part of the brain. This may be true, but if not, their are other basic reasons to learn drawing in order to be more creative.


*Drawings allow creative collaborations with non-drawing participants whose creativity is facilitated by the drawings. Drawing for a creative worker is a dynamic conversation with the plan and the other stakeholders. The drawing talks to the designers and the designers responds with new variations until the best possible outcome is realized.

****FINALLY ---- Before you going to do something try to sketch it on a Paper!