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Students these days are being bombarded with the thoughts and opinions of others. They aren't being taught to think for themselves and search for the answers to unsolved mysteries. How do people expect for us to progress when students aren't being taught to think outside of the box? Theories are often played off as facts, so students do not realize that there are more questions that need to be answered.
How do you teach someone to think outside the box?And if it could be taught, then wouldn't that just be increasing the size of the box, which would be making the outside the inside?
You give them more freedom to explore. Point out more of the mysteries in life. It is important to teach what we know, but I also think it is important to explain what we don't fully understand. I think by doing that it would give more students the incentive to try and solve life's mysteries.
Ahh, I see my mistake, well in any case I think knowledge is more responsible, as we always had the capacity of a great imagination, we haven't always been knowledgeable or reasonable.
Yes, definitely. Imagination is the ability to visualize (I think Nebling may have given this definition in here already), to picture, to put together in our mind, to construct mentally, etc. Knowledge is pure data, facts, information, etc. Knowledge NEEDS imagination in order to imagine these facts, and imagination NEEDS knowledge, because if you have no data, what data in your mind, what information can you use to imagine? Everything I can imagine requires information about the things that I am imagining. For example, to imagine a dragon, I have to know what wings are, or at the very lest know what wind is, know about certain shapes, to imagine a body part that can help you fly, I need to know what scales and reptillian skin is, I need to know what fire is, breath is, and combine those. I need at least some amount of knowledge to use imagination, and imagination to have data. I argue that reason/logic is the product of imagination and knowledge. Logic is essentially visualizing data in a way that makes sense. For example, two apples plus two apples equals four apples, first I need KNOW what an apple is, I need to know what the number two means, in order to IMAGINE what combining two apples and two apples would mean, to have the capacity for that logic.
I believe that knowledge is more important than imagination. I use knowledge more than imagination. What can imagination do to help you in life. With knowledge it can give you a good job and a good life. I don't believe that imagination can help you get a good job or even a house.
Without imagination there is no knowledge. When human civilization began, so did knowledge along side it. I don't see how they could have procured knowledge then without imagining something than testing it. Imagination is the foundation, without it our knowledge would collapse.
I think imagination is equally important as knowledge, though I do think this has a crucial point that needs to be said because our education system doesn't teach us on how to think rather on WHAT to think, knowledge. You need imagination to an extent to use logic and reason to interpret evidence. I need to be able to imagine what the evidence points to, at least to some extent.
Unless you're going into a job that is artistic than no and knowledge is more important for survival, you need to know what is dangerous and what you need to do to survive and imagination plays little role in this.
Reason is the product of imagination and knowledge, reason is more important then either imagination or knowledge. You can't have reason without accumulation of facts, or without being able visualize, when these two things combine, we get logic, reason, and critical thinking. This is my viewpoint on imagination and knowledge. Logic is the ability to imagine how all knowledge fits together.
Human creativity is one of the most highly valued human traits and one of the essential reasons why we have an evolutionary edge over everything nature has ever created. Creativity is very important.
Creativity presupposes imagination. In order to be creative we need to have the mental capacity to predict what the would be like of we were to do something or invent some tool. In order to predict like this we have to be imaginative. Therefore, imagination is necessary for creativity and creativity is very important. Imagination is therefore just as important as creativity.
Creativity is only useful in so far as it generates new knowledge. In a changing environment we have to continuously update out perspectives and come up with new ideas of how to surviveh. We have to know how to react in order to successfully live. The importance of creativity is therefore derived from one central premise. It's important to know to react, therefore it's important to be creative (and by extension imaginative). In other words creativity is subordinated knowledge because creativity's importance is derived from the importance of knowledge. In other words still, creativity is at most as important as knowledge.
