Reasearch on creativity shows that a vast majority of small children are actually creative geniuses.  Dr. Calvin Taylor, one of the great pioneers in education for the gifted and talented, found some great surprises in his research.  He gave eight tests of divergent creative thinking to 1600 children in the Headstart program.  He gave the same test to these children over several years.  The first test were given when the children were between three and five years of age.  Ninty-eight percent of the children scored in the genius category.  When these same children took identical tests five years later, only 32 percent scored that high.