First knowledge, then creativity. (A Common Core mention.) In the field of engineering (and science) prior art (knowledge) is a prerequisite for creativity. ...if children do something rigorous and academic, they will be prevented from being creative. Dangerously untrue. Rearranging knowledge in new ways is arguably the very essence of creativity It follows that the systematic acquisition of knowledge is one of the best things you can do if you want to be creative. It seems our educators are more concern about producing good little Progressive soldiers than anything else. Robin Eubanks, an attorney who wrote the new book Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon, sees the road to serfdom everywhere in our educational system. In a recent blog she wrote: Only an electronic color billboard in Times Square could be more explicit. It is indeed slam dunk time in our effort to show that the education reforms known as Common Core or 21st Century Skills or social and emotional learning are actually a means of gaining much broader transformations. That would be the same fundamental transformation that Barack Obama bragged of achieving. That would be the drive to impose socialism on this country.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:04:11 +0000
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