The greatest truth about human creativity, according to Howkins (2010: 53), is that “it
doesn’t matter where we get ideas from; it matters what we do with them”. The toughest
task is to learn how to handle ideas, information and knowledge. It includes both us and
other people. This can be achieved through education, training and learning.
Howkins (2010: 53) clarifies that there are some differences between education,
training and learning. According to him, education is the government-led system for
teaching children and young people up to college levels. All education systems teach
some creativity, but after primary school, most restrict to art and story-telling (Howkins
2010: 53). However, Leadbeater (2005: 7) disagrees while saying that a major influence
on the creative environment has a public policy, for example, the way education
promotes creativity. Another form is training that teaches specific skills, usually vocational
and ranging from language to life skills and professional qualifications (Howkins
2010: 54). Only then there is learning and it is what Howkins (2010: 54) characterises
as “personal, diverse and endless, self-motivated, self-managed and often selffinanced”
process.