A socio-psychological aspect of creativity in teaching, learning and evaluation

Today if our education is to give something to our future nation-builders, it is not stereotyped knowledge or information which we give them in classrooms, nor the degrees or diplomas which they get at the end of their school and college education as a written guarantee for some kind of employment but a trained intellect which would enable them to deal with the situations in divergent ways. This is possible only when in classrooms creative education is imparted to them so as to enable them to meet efficiently & economically their individual needs on the one hand & societal aspirations on the other. Creativity is as old as the history of man. The thoughts that now people have about creativity, however are not essentially old, they are new. They represent a different perspective on natural phenomena and human behavior that in themselves also are as old as our history records. The transition from the story of creation to the perspectives on creativity of today speaks volumes about the evolution & the development of human thought. In the olden days, man has not discovered himself as ‘individual’. Today, thousands of years later, man is only beginning to discover the profound meanings of the individual person. For the religiously-oriented people, man was not creative; only God was creative. Until three centuries ago, to think any man creative in thought or in action was regarded as blasphemy.