Nurturing Creativity and the Role of Subject-Specific Knowledge


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"Every student has the potential to be a world-class artist."

That's the takeaway from a new study out of Australia, which found that kids who learn to create are more likely to be world-class artists themselves by the time they leave high school.

The study, published in the Australian Journal of Education, also found that kids who are exposed to a high-level of creativity in school are more likely to go on to be world-class artists by the time they're adults.

"The starting point is to embrace creativity as a teachable skill, that all students have capacity for varying degrees," the study's co-author says in a press release.

The study found that kids who were exposed to a high-level of creativity in elementary school were more likely to be world-class artists by the time they left high school.

The study also found that kids who were exposed to a high-level of creativity in middle school were more likely to be world-class artists by the time they left high school.

The study found that students who were exposed to a high-level of creativity in elementary school were more likely to be world-class artists by the time they left high school.

The study also found that students who were exposed to a

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