CONFIRMATION

Instructions:
1. Answer the following questions.
2. Write your confirmation.
3. Start linking to your sources. 
1. What is my thesis?Creativity is learned in school not killed. 2. What types of source am I using to defend my thesis? 
I am using expert opinions.

3. Are my arguments mostly based on evidence, logic or emotion?

My arguments have no hard evidence. Thus, I'm going to use expert's opinion and logic.

 

My Confirmation

 

 You can jumpstart your Innovation Engine by building your base of knowledge, which will ultimately serve as the toolbox for your imagination. You can also build habitats — or environments — that foster creativity. This involves crafting spaces that are conducive to creative problem solving, and instituting rules, rewards and incentives that reinforce creative behavior. And, most important, you can cultivate an attitude that problems are opportunities for a creative solution. With that mindset, you are willing to push through roadblocks and obvious answers to come up with truly creative ideas. (Tina Seelig)

 The paragraph, citing from sayings of Tina Seelig, renowned educationalist writing inGenius, shows us 3 requirements (or ways) for growing creativity; Building base of knowledges, bulding habits and environments, and cultivating attitudes. I'd like to focus on the first sentence. That sentence means knowledge is the basic requirement for creativity. Thus we could strengthen the basis for creativity by acquiring knowledges. Here's an another expert's opinion emphasizing the importance of inderstanding subjects learned in school for out-of-box thinking.

 No one in creativity research argues that children should give free rein to their imagination at the cost of understanding a subject. After all, you can’t think outside the box until you fully understand what’s inside the box. (gerald Puccio)

Then I'll ask you a question. Where we can gain knowledges and understand subjects? The answer must be 'schools'. Yes, school is where we can gain knowledges and understand subjects. Thus, in other words, we can laying groundwork for creativity in school. Of course some might argue that we can do so by reading books or surfing the internet. But it's true that school is the most effective way for doing so.

 After strengthening the basis for creativity, what we have to do is developing creativity in practice. Then ,but, you gonna meet the difficuty in answering the question, 'How can you develop your creativity?' The abstract answer is 'practice' But we're eager to have more specific answer. Here's an more specific answer

Puccio teaches his students that creativity comes in four stages – clarifying, ideating, developing and implementing. Clarifying is ensuring you’re asking the right question; ideating is about exploring as many solutions as possible; developing and implementing are making sure the idea is practical and convincing to others. (Gerald Puccio)

Now, we have specific answers. But it seems hard to carry those out by ourselves. Because, at start, we couldn't know whether our question is right or wrong , and whether our idea is pratical and convincing or not and also “Creativity is not a licence to be bizarre(Gerald Puccio)”, we need a person to help us to take a right step for creativity and not to crossing the line between bizarre and creative. Then who can help us ? 'Teachers in School' can help us. There might be another way such as hiring tutors, but it's not a fair way due to the needs of money. The poor can have tutors. Thus, teacher in school is perfect for growing creativity. Of course some might worry that due to today's curriculum for entering universities techers couldn't help their students to enhance creativity. But there are methods for teachers to keep balance on fostering creativity and giving a lecture for entering universities.
(http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2013/01/10/30-ways-to-promote-creativity-in-your-classroom/)

 As we see above, we can lay groundwork for creativity and actually grow creativity with helps of teachers in school. Thus considering school as a slaughterhouse is the concept we should throw out. School is certainly the place where creativity is learned.