Should literacy be on the same level as creativity?

In class we began to watch the TED Talks video on creativity in education. The speaker on this video discussed that creativity needs to be introduced into schools for education. That in order to educate the students now, we need to incorporate things they need to know in order to be able to function for their future. We are not sure of the future, so instead of having a curriculm of topics, we need to teach them things that they will be able to use in order to solve situations to function in the society's future. He says that "creativity is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status."

I can agree that because of the issue of not knowing what the future holds, that student's education needs to incorporate creativity. Education now only consists of government structured subjects that does not allow the teachers to have room for teaching or using creativity. Because of this, creativity has declined while not allowing students to have a wide range of answers. Students are taught that there is only one answer, so they are always questioning for that one correct answer. This leaves no room for divergent thinking, that involves creativity.

When the speaker stated that literacy and creativity needs to be of equal importance in education, it caught me off guard. Knowing that my education has always been striving to learn "the one right answer", I could not see how education would transform into teaching the importance and use of creativity. I do not know when this transformation will be possible, or how teachers, government, and students will go about it, but I believe the change could transform the way we look at our education.