CREATIVITY TYPE II: DESIGNING AND CREATING WORLD FUTURES

Abstract

A common educational error has been to assume that children are naturally creative and that it is good for them to express their natural creativity, whatever the results. This permits moral anarchy by default, for it ignores the ends that creativity can serve. Thieves, exploiters and various types of murderers may be very creative, but we may wish they were less so. Unless creativity is instrumental to life-affirming goals it can serve pathological ends.