Creativity is in. Not just in preschool but all over the place.

Not too long ago Daniel H. Pink wrote a book called “A Whole New Mind”, basically explaining why right brainers will rule the future.

For years our educational system has concentrated on SAT’s and PSAT’s and Gmat’s and LSATs.

To be successful in our business world until now one had to have logic and analytic skills. Math and sciences were the be all and end all of education.

A funny thing happened though and it’s called outsourcing. Indian workers began taking jobs that workers in the U.S. would get $70,000 for and charging $15,000 for the same work.

All of a sudden people started realizing that we now need a new set of aptitudes to be successful and those new set of aptitudes are right brain related.

Guess what’s real right brained.  You guessed it.

Creativity.

All of a sudden creativity is at a premium.

Jobs that need the classic left brainers will be giving their work away to those inexpensive outsourcers across the sea while the right brainers will be at a premium.

And what does this have to do with our children you ask?

It’s pretty obvious to me and probably to you now also.

The sooner we start allowing our children more creativity and less conformity, the sooner and earlier they will be able to adapt to a new reality and get a head start for later success in life.

This means that the tradtional crafts for kids that have been so prevelant in our prechool classrooms must be replaced with art that makes kids actually use their creativity and not leave that up to the adult creating the projects.

Read the book, it’s fascinating and eyeopening.

Has anybody seen this happening yet in theri world. I’d love to hear about it.