Albert Einstein: “Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge”
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/03/imagination-important-knowledge/
@franciscorodrigues tell that to the crowd that wants to maximize time spent in schools where students have to sit at desks, passively receiving "knowledge" for hours on end...
@lmrocha The big problem with school is that children learn that making mistakes is wrong, but the only way to discover something new is by making mistakes!
I could not agree more! In our PhD program the introductory course I teach, students have to solve a black-box problem that use open-ended, without a single obvious solution. The only way you approach it is 1) collectively, 2) creatively, and 3) by making mistakes. After decades trained to passively receive knowledge and being told what the correct solution is, many students really have a hard time coping. I wish students at much earlier grades were allowed to engage in more open-ended, learn by mistake, creative and constructive knowledge contributions (not knowledge reception) .
@lmrocha This is a terrible methodology. Our schools and teaching methods are the same as the ones adopted in the XIX century, during the Industrial Revolution. Schools train kids as if they would work in factories: they learn to obey schedules, and orders, copy (repetitive work), not contest the rules, memorize the content, and not suggest any thoughts that are different from those taught by the teacher. Unfortunately, schools kill children's creativity.