Academic Intelligence VS Creative Intelligence: Why Drop-outs Have Been Known To Emerge as Great Inventors Later In Life

The question of whether or not there is a significant relationship between intelligence and creativity is crucial to a discussion on the teaching of creativity. This is especially so since educational research finding would counsel that teachers should adjust their instructions to reflect the level of intelligence of learners.

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This issue has always proved a hard nut to crack because phenomena is not easy to explain and often surfaces during the process of intelligence measurement. For instance, drop-outs from normal academic institutions have been known to emerge as great inventors later in life, while pupils praised as high achievers turn out to be uncreative.

Thomas Edison reputed to be one of the greatest inventors in the world never had a high school education, nor did the Wright Brothers who invented the first aeroplane. Albert Einstein, the great physicist who said to have a 'low intelligence' while in the primary school. I do not think I need to mention Mark Zuckerberg again, do I?

In all although education has been proved to greatly enhance vocational and technical skills, it appears that academic intelligence does not always tally with creative intelligence.

During the mid-1960's, a study carried out in the United States showed that there are only modest relationship between intelligence quotient and performance in creative thinking tests. In fact, an early study in Chicago University concluded that intelligence quotient tests are not useful in identifying students of varying creative abilities. Some of the highlights of the Chicago University study are worth discussing more closely. The study sought to distinguish the characteristics of learners having high intelligence quotient from those having high creative intelligence.

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The results showed that highly creative students were not among those having the highest intelligent quotient and vice versa. It was also found that while the highly intelligent students were conventional and hardly ever showed traits of fantasy, the highly creative learners made significantly greater use of fantasy and imagination in exercises involving narration. Besides, the highly intelligent group preferred very unconventional vocations like inventing, fine art, space travelling and the like.

On the social side, the highly intelligent group showed very little liking for humour, while the highly creative ones showed a great tendency to be humorous.

Finally, while the highly intelligent ones enjoy the teacher's favour and hardly ever ran into trouble, the highly creative students were much often out of the teacher's favour.

But which is better between the two? Please answer with comment.

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