Creativity Crisis!!!!

   Many people differ struggles whether it is at home, work, physical, emotional, etc. However, a major struggle that the whole world is dealing with is creativity within the walls of our schools and walls of our brain. We have been lacking creativity worldwide and it is presenting its absence among a given creativity test. Authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman published “The Creativity Crisis” in Newsweek.com in July 2010. The published news was determined by a test of creativity that had been given to millions to people. Nevertheless, the creativity test failed, as it showed that the “creativity quotient” had crept downward, since 1990. It had come to someone’s attention that the insufficiency and decline in creativity was “most serious” in younger children, from kindergarten through sixth grade. In the meantime we are having trouble coming up for creative solutions, whether it is an everyday problem or an international importance like saving the Gulf of Mexico. It is highly recommended that these children, as well as adults, be taught more about creativity through creative thinking classes. Not only to become better for the test but so that we humans start to grow and expand alongside creativity.
            Creativity can mean so much. It is a structure of our minds so that we are able to think “outside the box” and look for answers or see certain things that aren’t visually there at first. Creativity will help expand the mind of what we are conformed to normally think and help build a tree of knowledge of new ways in how to think or answer. Creativity is essential and can identify the limit of how much one person can think about a certain topic. For example, if a subject matter were to be brought up between two students -one being creative and the other not- the creative student will excel way better and further than the original student. The creative student will think of fresh new ideas/answers, on the other hand, the other student will be limited to the way he/she thinks and may have a difficult time trying to solve or approach the subject matter.
            Creativity starts at a young age, therefore it should be explicitly taught at children’s schools from a very young age in which they can begin developing their creative minds from an early age and throughout their lives. It should also begin at an early age like kindergarten due to the fact that the test had its decline during that stage. The younger, the better, because at this stage it is where children are taught to see/say/do/think things one way and not the other. Professor Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William and Mary claimed as quoted,” It’s very clear, and the decrease is very significant,” She also reports that it was the scores of the younger children in America- from kindergarten through sixth grade- for whom the decline is most serious. It is unfortunate to know that the decline were from the children instead of adults because it is a period in life where kids begin to develop, discover, and learn new things.
            Regardless, the school board might find it hard to agree with this decision because it might be a wasted class period or wasted time on the children. In addition, a new class would cost money so that a teacher can teach the creative-thinking class. Despite that, we shouldn’t put a price on the education of any children/teen or even an adult. The creativity class would be a great privilege to have, because later in life when those children become students and compete in college, it compares one student from another.

            I hereby strongly suggest that the creative thinking class should be put into action, towards kindergarden-6^th, teens, and adults who struggle as well. It would be a great outcome for students in the future to develop a much more broader and better way of thinking. Furthermore, by having these creative thinking classes we will see a change in our future and the publics “creativity quotient” will begin to grow upward.