A study of creativity of Navodaya Vidayalaya students with relation to curriculum stream and gender

In educational research, the word “creativity” which is only sixty year old, has shifted its source from divine to psychic functioning of human beings. Of course, human beings are endowed with unique powers. Of all their powers, creativity is the most unique. In each of us are little-used powers of creativity, which may be termed as “spark of genius”, waiting to be freed. Even a computer which can work at an amazing pace cannot match it, as it can only repeat the mechanical orientations but cannot produce original ideas, which the human mind is capable of the work of creation.