Charles Clarke, Secretary of State for Education and Skills, writes on the importance of creativity in education.

Picasso didn?t invent Cubism by slavishly copying other artists. Newton didn?t come to his conclusions about gravity by thinking along straight lines. Both were creative geniuses, unafraid to challenge the accepted views of their time ? and the world is a richer and wiser place for their discoveries. Not everyone can be a Picasso or a Newton, of course, but... more