ABSTRACT
Creativity is one of the most important topics for the gifted and talented student. Students with top grades in school and at the university level were found to have not only a high IQ, but also high creativity. There are two barriers to fostering or enhancing classroom creativity. One is intellectual uniformity. The other is intellectual anarchy, which is characterized by irregularity or chaos. With intellectual uniformity, novelty is stifled or eliminated with everyone marching in lockstep. In contrast, with intellectual anarchy, nonconformity is the norm, with pandemonium the only result. Extreme anarchy is not like the symphony where different instruments are playing in concert. Intellectual ingenuity is the productive merger of uniformity and irregularity. In reality, most people are not drowning in a sea of creative chaos.
