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Creative School
Renewing Leadership for Creativity
Vilmos Vass
It is quite strange how little effect school—even high school—seems to have had on the lives
of creative people.
Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi
When we are looking for some adjectives regarding schools—let us put our hands frankly on our
hearts—the word “creative” does not come rst. Sometimes (positively) we nd the word “good,”
which is quite a general expression and does not help in digging deeper inside the school as an organi-
zation. In his famous powerful book Creativity, Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi stated that “creativity does
not happen inside people’s head, but in the interaction between ...