Curriculums Incorporating Creativity

Recently, in one of our assignments, we were asked to express our thoughts and include our input on how or what we believed could promote creativity to help better the economic situations and future stance of the world. This situation of lack of creativity is a serious issue that has concerned the world due to the fact that the ability to think outside of the ordinary and have originality is something that is quite essential to come across new innovative ideas that can improve the world around us. Often, the educational system has been criticized for its strong emphasis and focus on test preparations. These programs which force the school systems into spending time on strict and intensive standardized test preparations take away any opportunity of incorporating creativity into education. This leaves the worrisome question of how it is possible to include and promote creativity into our curriculums. Although some have suggested the addition of a class dedicated to creativity alone, in my personal point of view, the best way of truly and effectively placing the involvement of creativity into our education would be to incorporate creativity into tasks that are already required in the school curriculums.