Creativity - is it the primary goal or merely a by-product of arts education?

I wish I had more opportunities to explore different kinds of arts as a child. I grew up to be quite musical, but I am NOT AT ALL artistic when it comes to visual arts. To be frank, although I tell children that paint is not dirty and encourage them to mess around with it, I still need to take a deep breath before I get my own hands into paints. When it comes to papier mache, the first thing that