Open Course in Education Futures

I had to chuckle, when, after reading Part 2 on creativity, I found at least 4 different books titled "The care and feeding of ideas" on Amazon. I guess the authors should have applied some of their own creativity techniques to titling their books.

More seriously, the readings on creativity draw attention to the notion that everyone is creative and can learn to be more so, that being creative requires consistent, hard work and it involves a dialogue between a problem in which someone is invested and has a background (or can get the background) and creative thinking techniques.

This implies that if creativity is an important attribute for schools, education needs to teach children to work with ideas.