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Understanding the Relationship Between Critical and Creative Thinking an integrated relationship “The critical creative functions of the mind are so interwoven That neither can be separated from the other without an essential loss to both.” anonymous In Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms “The word ‘critical’ when applied to persons who judge and to their judgments, not only may, but in very precise use does, imply an effort to see a thing clearly and truly so that not only the good in it may be distinguished from the bad and the perfect from the imperfect, but also that it as a whole may be fairly judged and valued.” In Webster’s New World Dictionary, the word ‘creative’ has three interrelated meanings: Creating or able to create, Having or showing imagination or artistic or intellectual inventiveness Stimulating the imagination and inventive powers Criticality assesses; creativity originates Critical and creative thought are both achievements of thought. Creativity masters a process of making or producing Criticality masters a process of assessing or judging Intellectual discipline and rigor are at home with originality and productivity In critical thinking we assess thinking to make improvements. In creative thinking we generate thinking based on our sense of how to make things better. Thus critical thinking has a creative component: to produce a better product of thought And creative thinking has a critical component: to reshape thinking in keeping with criteria of excellence. Critical thinking without a creative output is merely negative thinking. Creative thinking without a critical component is merely novel thinking. It is easy to be merely negative or novel in one’s thought. Achieving quality requires standards of qualityand hence criticality Achieving useful produces of one’s thinking requires a sense of how to make, or recast, one’s thinking a