This chapter explores the various relationships that exist between contradictions and creativity. The focus is education, with implications for both teachers and students. Contradictions are defined and contrasted with problems, disequilibria, and dilemmae. Product, place, personality, and process perspectives on creativity as also compared. The advantages of the process view are detailed and recommendations offered. These include (a) optimal challenges for authentic learning and the fulfillment of creative potentials, and (b) the recognition that contradictions and creativity both depend on interpretations. [For the complete volume, "Creative Contradictions in Education: Cross Disciplinary Paradoxes and Perspectives. Creativity Theory and Action in Education. Volume 1," see ED612145.]