In Lithuania most people are frightened by everything unusual and new. And the bigger part of lithuanian teachers do not take to evaluating such new and brave works positively. It is easier for them to ask a pupil or astudent to avoid such innovations and to write more habitual things, in the truth of wich nobody can doubt. Although as Niels Bohr said: "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true". And by avoiding the second part of this quotation, teachers may distinguish some person's growing creativity.
To my mind creativity is like a fragile flower, needing lots of conditions to reveal itself. Even talking about such period, when smb's creativity for the first time steps into a world where it becomes visible for the first independent evaluators. Here it is very important, if a person and his art will be undersood, and if not - how will the author feel about it. As even if he looks like feeling normal about this, it is not difficult to understand, that some his hopes became broken. But even in the case that everybody recognise the new talent, as usual the happiness doesn't last for a long time. People soon become bored of everything and demand something new all the time. And when such thing happens - it is terribly strong impact for the creator. It is even harder to loose the glory, than not to have it at all from the begining. Especially, talking about such souls, in wich the fragile flowers of creativity grow... So nothing strange, that between such people cases of commiting a suicide or attachment to some narcotic materials like alcohol are so often.
However, with all it's disadvantages, and difficulties brought, creativity is seen as a very positive thing. And some people even believe that it is possible to boost it. For example by going for a walk if you can't think, carrying a notebook and a pen everywhere - to quickly note the new idea, or exercising brain by reading or arguing with clever people...
But I think that it is absolutely impossible to increase the rate or the amount of the creativity you have. And at the schools of creativity that really exist I also look very sceptically. I just can't imagine, what could the teachers there be like... To my mind they can neither advice what approximately the new works have vo be like, nor say whether the work of some pupil is good or bad, as to my mind such categories, talking about the art, just don't exist! And as it is said "There is a foot for every shoe"... For every piece of art there will be an amateur. So as I can imagine that teachers - they are people who just have a huge experience in this sphere and getting new works of pupils can just say, whether trere are already similar masterpieces in the art. And they are also in touch with the needful institutions, so they just can help a new talent to be seen, and everybody, who looks for new talents and fresh views can also search there.
And one more, maybe even the most important role of such schools is that there creating whatever is always welcome.
It is so important because without creativity becoming a genius is just impossible, and so every it's display must be saluted, even when sometimes we can really see nothing nice in that or what is more, it seems for us strange and unnormal. As Oscar Levant said: "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." People still have to be brave about advicing their new and special views and thoughts.
To sum up, I would like to mention Edward's de Bono words that:"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." And this point of view must be popularized.
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