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Date Posted: 21:11:04 02/14/07 Wed
Author: April Dandridge (Happy)
Subject: Creative Thinking

As a teacher, I am in favor of creative thinking. I believe that creative thinking allows teachers to reach all learners. Creative thinking also allows students to think independently. I don�t believe a person�s intelligence can be placed in a box or determine by an I.Q. test. For example, my father was very creative. He grew up in a time where a child was made to go to work rather than obtain an education. He didn�t graduate HS, but he displayed a cleverness that astonished people. However, he always thought that because he didn�t graduate from HS that his intelligence did not match up to anyone. My father had life experience and that will always outweigh any diploma or degree.

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[> Re: Creative Thinking -- Evelyn Moore, 21:20:37 02/14/07 Wed

>I agree April. My father was the most intelligent man that I have ever know. He had a third grade education and lived to receive an honorary master's degree in machinery. He could work on cars and rebuild then. He build his first car at age 14. Each of us are not limited in our capacity. When I was 16, my father told me he had heard that people only use about 10 percent of their brain and he would challenge me to got to use more that 10 percent. As a teacher, we should be adapative to make sure that we do not hinder the growth and creativity of the student

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[> Re: Creative Thinking -- Cassandra Schuyler, 19:47:53 02/21/07 Wed

This makes me think further into the conversation or dilemma that we came to in class last week.... with intelligence and creativity and whether or not it is inborn. With your father, just like others, society has convinced us that the only way we can rate ourselves in intellegence or feel of importance is via a college diploma, which now is turning into a grad student diploma, or a IQ test. Just like with adolescence in school, our peers and society have created this way of thinking that we each have about ourselves. And we must think about the things that we say to our students each day because these things will someday lead them to these same believs about themselves. They already beleive that they are not equal to others or they are not capable of achieving high goals. We must show them and prove to them, so that they can believe it themselves...they are "intelligent."

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