Yeats was completely and poetically accurate in his statement. Our job as teachers is not to fill minds with the knowledge we posses, it is to ignite the spark of interest in learning that each child posses. The spark needed to ignite the fire of educational growth and independence that is required to be successful today, and in the future. Our goal at Creative Learning is not to teach our students what we know, it is to guide them, through our knowledge, so that they may surpass us, and one day teach us what they have discovered and we have never dreamed of.

Collaboration is essential to the evolution of human knowledge. The saying "two minds are better than one", could not be truer. Through collaboration/brainstorming new and innovative ideas, new questions and new solutions can all be achieved. It is very important to us that collaboration takes place on all levels. Educators need to network, and be open minded; they need to realize that the children in their class will learn much more and grow much more if the teacher involves the students in the educational process. Through group discussions where the educator acts as a part of the group, instead of the "all knowing leader", children are able to see the importance of their ideas and their contributions; which leads to more ideas and more contributions. As a child (and even sometimes in college and graduate school), I remember asking my teacher/professor a question and being told it was "off the main topic", or not covered in the chapter, or some other statement that was intended to discourage me from being an independent thinker and get me to just following the program. That is the most destructive thing that an educator can do to a student. As an educator, my JOB is to inspire my students to ask questions relative, or sometimes irrelevant, to the topic we are discussing, to think of new ideas, to ask questions I can't answer. The evolution of knowledge is acquired by: all of the new questions that someone decides to try and answer, by some off the wall idea that someone decides they want to study. It is not through re-doing or just reading about what has already been done that the new discoveries are made. Knowledge evolves through questioning those readings, wanting to learn more, being "off topic", coming up with questions that no one has answered. Without questioning and independent thought, no new knowledge will be discovered.

The Theory of Creative Learning
                   - Kathryn Marie Juárez