Not So Serious,

[megancoleman]

Creativity is a beautiful aspect of ones character, to be creative in words used, words said, how they carry themselves and artistic creativity which many are blessed with at our school. But the true and sad fact that Bronson and Merryman pointed out was that creativity is on the down turn while intelligence scores are rising. Creativity does not seem like a skill used often, but it is needed in many other ways, creativity is how music and art is made. The authors said, "Those [kids] who came up with more good ideas on Torrance's tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software developers… The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ." The more creative the children were the better off they were later in life, succeeding in aspects people would not normally associate with creativity. Being intelligent is always great, but it is easy to look up things on Google or in a textbook to help you, even to read a book, but to creatively find projects to do or ways to change a toy or room is amazing, creativity is a gift, sometimes learned but mostly thought of over a long time. Time is wasted on not being creative and busy with our lives and learning what other "important" people find to be intelligent.
Torrance had a great program idea to get ideas from children, the most creative people on the planet, because logic does not go into what they think yet, only how the toys they love would become awesome. The Torrance program measured kids intelligence and creativity levels, and as they continued the program over the years and studied the results, it became shocking the differences after 1990. "Since then, creativity score have consistently inched downward." said Bronson and Merryman. The emphasis is clearly on the intelligence levels in this day in age, because the internet and all the useful sources used to find information fast and effortlessly, while creativity take effort and time. People are all into getting things done fast and with the result instantly.
Creativity takes more effort than plugging math equations into a calculator or doing a science experiment. Creativity is shown, however in English and writing, you have to be creative to write an intriguing or interesting paper, with peoples brains barely able to focus on things for more than 5 seconds at a time, creativity keeps peoples attentions. Thats the positive and maybe changing side of creativity, changing how people read articles, for more people to read them, they have to have a creative air to them to grab the attention of others. Creativity is being lost, but we are going to be able to find it the more we practice creativity and the more we express ourselves and not let others push us down. Self expression is one of the most important aspects of creativity and not letting it die out.

[marycaitrolph]

Megan’s take on the article was very interesting. I agree with her when she says that creativity is on the down turn while intelligence scores are rising. A rise in intelligence is a good thing, but we need to experience a rise in creativity as well. The quote, “Being intelligent is always great, but it is easy to look up things on Google or in a textbook to help you, even to read a book, but to creatively find projects to do or ways to change a toy or room is amazing, creativity is a gift, sometimes learned but mostly thought of over a long time. Time is wasted on not being creative and busy with our lives and learning what other "important" people find to be intelligent,” is exactly correct. Today so much time is wasted on the aspects of what others declare as intelligent. While a standardized test to check intelligence isn’t a bad idea, why isn’t there a test to see how creative a person is? We focus much of our time on being intelligent and preparing ourselves for college, but we should also be creative. The article said that children who were more creative had a higher success rate later in life. Since creativity cannot be taught, I wonder how we can incorporate it into our lives so self expression and creativity are not lost.

[oliviamoler]

Boy Mary Cait! You are on a roll girl. This article was definitely one that Robin Moler would have a lot of voice in. In all my 17 years, I have never met a person as creative as her and no, I am not the only person who thinks this. Growing up I always knew (and still believe) that both of my parents are the most intelligent people in my life. Not only do they have degrees from great schools, but they have also taught me everything there is to know about becoming a respected individual. My dad is an amazing artist! He fascinates me with the amount of thought that he puts in his work and I am still baffled to this day as to how he does it. But dad’s creativity levels are lacking a little. Yes he can think and interpret amazing art pieces, but as far as birthday parties and other social events, he just showed up to do the face painting. Mom on the other hand couldn’t draw her way out of paper bag. But boy can she think of the coolest things! For my 16th birthday she took me to New York City to eat at a very fancy restaurant, see the Broadway production of Wicked, and to tour the famous Say Yes to the Dress location, Kleinfelds! Then to top it all off she had the most amazing scrapbook for me a few days after we came back. My mom can think of anything. She has a brain that is like no other. And no offense to her, she’s no school nerd, but she is definitely the most intelligent and creative person that I know! Creativity in my head, and fo sho hers, is much more important than anything you could learn from a book.