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Encouraging Creativity in the Young Child

Creativity is the energy or power within a person to think and then produce or create. 

It exists within everyone, but it must be nourished in order to grow.  In 1968, George Land conducted a very interesting study on creativity with 1,600 preschool children in a head start program.  The study showed that 98% of children are creative at the age of 5.  However, when the same individuals were tested at ages 10 and again at 15, the results showed only 30% were creative at age 10 and 12% at the age of 15!  When the same test was administered to 280,000 adults only 2% tested positive for creativity!

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PostedOctober 31, 2017
AuthorDeborah Herrington
CategoriesMontessori Theory, Creativity, Montessori Extensions, Maria Montessori

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