ABSTRACT
Creativity is sometimes believed to be a rather chaotic process where inspiration, if you are lucky, might strike from ‘out of the blue’ and can thus be quite haphazard and time consuming. If this were the case, then it would be difficult to cater for the development of creativity in schools: special provision would have to be made for the needs of the eccentric minority who may indeed grow up to be geniuses, if only they were connected to the real world . . .
