¶ Creativity of Children
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Creativity of Children:
“I think that every one of us has had the experience of hearing a little child suddenly, saying, or asking a question, or making a statement that is so lucid that we are astonished. There have been hundreds of millions of little children-- one after another saying these extraordinarily beautiful things. Emerson spoke of poetry as saying the most important things in the simplest way and children are continually saying these important things in simple ways. I think that is what society in general talks about as creative, as if you were just being a little child and retaining that quality when you are older, when you have had more experience and can still ------------- see clearly and lucidly and say things economically. That is what man has been calling creativity. About creativity as a word, I would not myself feel that men aspire to add to the Universe, but they discover the great extraordinary principles within it and can employ them from time to time in very novel ways quite clearly moving forward to greater understanding.”
¶ Citations
- RBF at SLS, U.Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, Talk 12, p. 14
