Creativity and imagination are the core abilities that have driven civilization forward, so they cannot be skipped in future university education. They give graduates a toolkit for dealing with the most inevitable feature of the future — unpredictability, uncertainty and new challenges that will arise long after they leave the university. Universities should not only teach these skills but also foster existing talents, and do so in a more formalized way, so that creative thinking becomes integrated into virtually every curriculum, whether in the humanities, the arts or STEM. It is also a question of values: creativity and imagination sit at the core of humanity, and we should think carefully before outsourcing to machines the things that built our civilization.