Ernő Rubik (Ambassador of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation), practising teachers and professionals discussed the role of education in developing creativity and innovative skills.

Creativity is a natural born, basic skill, enabling us to find new answers. It should be of basic importance to retain children’s natural creativity, to prevent its repression, and then we would be bothered less by how to improve it later. Since the way of learning may differ from child to child, the school should be selected to match the child's personality. However, it is up to the teachers themselves, rather than the school’s institutional framework, whether children’s creativity can unfold.

See the edited extract of the round-table held at the “Creativity and Innovation in Lifelong Learning” conference of 28 April, 2009 in Budapest.

Round-table extract (pdf, 96 kb)