ABSTRACT
THE appearance of yet another article on Creativity and education needs a preliminary apology. So much has been written on creativity in the last ten years, from technical articles on the validation of creativity tests to books like The Goldmine between Your Ears, and widely has the cult of creativity been adopted by teachers in Colleges of Education and elsewhere, that it is profitable perhaps to stop for a moment and look critically at some of the assumptions lying behind the various ideas which are being currently propagated. For, as I shall try to show, many of these ideas are radically confused; and it is in the desire to prevent such conceptual confusion from diverting teachers, especially in primary schools, from educational to non-educational or even anti-educational purposes, that I have written this article.
