I gave my creative writing students (high school seniors) a “Kreativity Kwizz” a few days ago, and one of the students gave an answer that I read as one of the best compliments I could get on this class:
“I know that this class is by far the most unique, weirdest class I have ever taken, and that it is so easy it is actually hard.”
This statement shows me that my student really gets, really understands, that being creative doesn’t require doing the things that people typically think of as hard work: solving lots of math problems or memorizing facts for a test (although I do ask students to memorize a few poems). Learning creative practices requires different thinking, or even no-thinking, which are themselves challenging. I also just love the way this student worded this idea, showing her own creativity!
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