As knowledge and information increase exponentially, rote learning as an educational method becomes increasingly irrelevant. The educational task in the future will be to develop the ability to acquire, synthesise and apply knowledge appropriately as changing problems and possibilities present themselves; to draw new forms and patterns out of the raw material: the ability in other words to be creative.
The method of teaching I shall describe in this paper is a particular way of organizing project work of release and channel the creativity of students and also of teachers.