Subject: Teaching creativity in class room
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quoted:
While imagination can be guided, the true creator is a better champion of
his/her own original ideas. Ergo, give him credit for thinking up the idea
wherever possible.
unquote
Guiding imagination refers to guiding your own, not somebody else's.
The real context should read "guided intuition".
If you guide somebody else's you are teacher or mentor.
If you guide your own intuition you are using a valuable tool you have
learned.
Students should be taught how to guide their own intuition before they are
thinking of guiding other's.
Anyone can follow own ideas better than "foreign" ideas. The creator with
an open mind is able to accommodate and make use of "foreign" ideas. The
creator with a closed mind would reject other people's ideas. Example:
Edison rejected "alternating current".
Thank you for the opportunity to clarify "guided intuition".
Emil Zahner,
canmor@compuserve.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/canmor
2000.5.2.