Editorial - Educating Creativity

Since the 50’s of the past century, the need to promote creativity in people has been stressed, and many attempts have been made to devise techniques to enhance individual and group creativity and to test the efficacy of such techniques. Educating creativity became one of the most salient goals of school instruction and of on-the-job training. The interest toward the possibility to foster creativity grew up further and nowadays it is still one of the eminent topics in education. Why is it still important to try to stimulate creativity in children and adults