sound successful education.
Throughout the full spectrum of an education system from kindergarten to PhD candidates to the company training sessions, without this element potential stays in the 5% bracket at best. This absence of awareness of the significance of creative development is demonstrated every day all around us in every corner and sector of society. Creative development is what underscores the meaning, value and purpose of education, it infuses learning with personal meaning, it does the same for careers, relationships, business, anywhere people are involved , what you get in quality is proportionate to the quality of creative development encountered in the education system – and in life of course. Creative development isn’t a subject that the curriculum designers forgot to include for the past hundred years; it is a way of teaching and learning based on an authentic understanding of human potential. Authentic understanding is an understanding of why people excel, why people are fulfilled (or could be), it is an understanding that what serves peoples best interests is unique to the individual and not necessarily an academic opinion of what is good for people – however well informed or well intentioned.
Many of the biggest breakthroughs in the sciences, especially neuroscience and psychology come from exploring what isn’t working correctly. One such breakthrough came from examining stroke survivors and in particular patients that made a full recovery. Keeping this brief; scientists found to their surprise that the fully recovered patients still had the original brain damage but other areas of the brain had taken on the role of the damaged area – speech, walking, use of an arm or whatever, this finding had tremendous implications for others with acquired brain injury.
How can exploring the problem/issues teach us about creative development?