ABSTRACT
The idea of creativity, imagination and spontaneity has always been viewed as something of lesser value by the hard scientists and others. There are many definitions of the creative process, which has been investigated by psychologists since the 1950s. These have stemmed from attempts to define it as a thinking skill, subdivided into sub-skills which can be improved by training and practice. Developing a sense of one's own identity and thus becoming oneself is probably the most important learning activity that a child can carry out. During the course of junior and secondary school education the teacher has specific goals to achieve so that there is a change from 'person-orientated learning' to 'learning the curriculum'. The attitude is that the Arts are of less importance that the Sciences, the emotional of less importance than the intellectual, so that the sensuous subjects such as Art, Poetry or Music are relegated to optional subjects in the school curriculum.
