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The article presents analyses concerning imagination and its importance for building creative and open attitude towards accepting and initiating a change. The presented picture of contemporary system of education creates a wide context for changes aimed at shaping a new image of a student, whose imagination is the source of creating and transforming the world around us. Creative behavior is the tool for further personal development of any individual and his/her self-knowledge. Imagination, together with the child’s individual activity, is the creative power and basis for education in the 21st century.