The Required Philosophical Idea Of Creative Education

As the most concerned subject in the area of modern education, creative education has been studied fruitfully by many scholars. This paper expounds the philosophical idea of creative education in terms of educational philosophy, following the logic of philosophical idea-creation-creative education. Expounding the philosophical idea of creative education is requirement of both creative education practice and creative education research.Creative education should stress the nature of life rather than utilitarianism or materialism. It should arouse the sense of life and its value. Creative education is by no means a kind of education in creativities or creative skills, which, of course, are important parts of creative education. Education is a course during which human seek to free themselves and to widen their horizons.This paper first explains the philosophical idea of creativity, and then the required philosophical idea of creative education: creative education has a rich connotation and a broad denotation: 1. Whether a new problem settled by an individual, an organization or everything valuable comes into being in first time is creativity. 2. Creativity is the activity which everybody enables and should to be engaged in. 3. Creativity has an extremely broad domain and various kinds of outcome.4. Creativity has both positive value and negative value.5. Creativity is the activity which has spiritual value. 6. Creativity is an intelligent action. The required philosophical ideas of creative education are: 1. Creative education should lie in the course of the beginning and the end of education.2.The idea which establishes man-based subjectivity education isthe beginning of creative education.3.Cultivating morality is the soul of creative education.4. Lifting life quality of man is the ultimate aim of creative education.5. Cultivating creative spirit is the key of creative education.6.Acquiring knowledge controlled by intelligence is the main goal of creative education.7.Insisting on creative idea of practice is the fundamental of creative education. In the end this paper points out that creative education, especially the required philosophical idea of creative education is the problem needed further continue research.