Creativity And Lateral Thinking Have Exactly The

(...) Being Right All The Time Acquires A Huge Importance In Education, And There Is This Terror Of Being Wrong. The Ego Is So Tied To Being Right That Later On In Life You Are Reluctant To Accept That You Are Ever Wrong, Because You Are Defending Not The Idea But Your Self-esteem. (...) This Terror Of Being Wrong Means That People Have Enormous Difficulties In Changing Ideas.

We Need Creativity In Order To Break Free From The Temporary Structures That Have Been Set Up By A Particular Sequence Of Experience.

Creativity Gives Hope That There Can Be A Worthwhile Idea.

We May Need To Solve Problems Not By Removing The Cause But By Designing The Way Forward Even If The Cause Remains In Place.

Unfortunately, Our Existing Traditional Thinking Habits Insist That You Must Attack Something And Show It To Be Bad Before You Can Suggest A Change. It Is More Difficult To Acknowledge That Something Is Excellent And Then To Ask For Change Because Although It Is Excellent, It Is Not Enough.