Creativity and Misguided Knowledge: A Reflection on Misunderstood Potential in Education.

Author - Brian Hawkeswood. " Scrollen Sie nach unten, um den Text auf Deutsch zu lesen.” Introduction Over four decades of teaching art, I’ve watched an idea be misrepresented, trivialised, and siloed—creativity. Repeatedly, I witnessed colleagues—well-meaning but profoundly misinformed—reduce creativity to an aesthetic afterthought, a colourful embellishment tacked onto otherwise rigid learning: “Don’t forget to colour it in—be creative!” they would urge students. Such moments, minor on the surface, revealed a deep structural misunderstanding about what creativity actually is and what role it should play in education. This essay is a response to that misunderstanding, and a plea for the restoration of creativity as a central human capacity—not owned by the arts, but exp...