Assignment:
Humans seem to have a genius for conceiving new ideas and inventing new things. Throughout history, this creative spirit has resulted in solutions for a variety of human problems and expressions of a spectrum of human experiences. The collection of visual arts, music, literature, and other related types of human expression known as the humanities can be seen as a primary way by which we express our creativity.
But creativity can be either encouraged, resulting in cultural and technical progress, or discouraged, resulting in individual and cultural stagnation. As in other key eras in human history, it is essential in our own time that the creative human genius be nurtured so that the problems we are facing may be dealt with effectively and exciting new possibilities may be realized.
Sir Ken Robinson-Defining Creativity.
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Carefully analyze the main points of each video and write a 2-page essay on the importance of encouraging human creativity. Be sure to cover the following topics:
The definition of creativity
The conditions which foster creativity
The conditions in current society which discourage creativity
How circumstances can be changed to encourage creativity
The different perspective on life which a creative broadening of the mind can produce