Poll: Is imagination more important then knowledge?
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Knowledge, imagination certainly won't be putting bread on the table 
That's not to say imagination isn't important, you SHOULD have both.
That's not to say imagination isn't important, you SHOULD have both.
Yes it is. Knowledge tells you that a tiny device could never figure out potentially complex mathematical equations. Imagination gives you the calculator.awesomeClaw said:
I immediately thought of Einstein when I read the title. They are both extremely important. No sense to put another on top of the other.
You can only create something new and wonderful when you use your imagination to think outside the box.
If you don't have knowledge, it's a rather small box you think out of.
You can only create something new and wonderful when you use your imagination to think outside the box.
If you don't have knowledge, it's a rather small box you think out of.
There is a difference between having an imagination based on knowledge and just having an imagination. Einstein could say thigs like that because he was smart enough to back up and develope his ideas. For the average person who doesn't have a mega high IQ, knowlege is more important. ANYONE can come up with a good idea using their imagination; that's the easy part. The hard part is developing that idea into something real. This is done with hard work, experimentation, and KNOWLEDGE.awesomeClaw said:
Any idiot can have an imagination, you have to be smart enough to make something from it.
Don't forget that most people are lazy and will never get the smarts neccessary to develope their ideas. Also, I feel like you don't quite unerstand how hard it is to actually become an expert in something. If anyone could do it, everyone would have a PHD and be an expert in their field.Ampersand said:
Imagination and knowledge go together pretty well. Everything we are using came from a very knowledgeable person's mind, or it came from aforementioned mind and some wealthy person's wallet (aka, investment).
Yes. And I think schools place too much emphasis on knowledge compared to imagination. I've loved writing creative fiction since I could write. When I was a kid, I didn't want to be a firefighter or a doctor. I wanted to be an author. Then along comes junior high school and says, "Creativity isn't allowed here. Analyze these short stories, present a report, and do this for the next 6 years."
I guess it's because school is about preparing you for work, where you're not supposed to have imagination. Just do as your told, follow others directions, and don't ask questions. "Creativity isn't allowed here. Analyze these data, present a report, and do this until you're 65."
I'm glad we got to do creative things on the government-created final exams if we chose to. Not only did they boost my already high marks (not trying to brag, just saying), but they let me do some creative writing. Something I wasn't allowed to do, since I had to write another damn essay on Shakespeare.
I also had a great professor in University for English that actually required us to do a creative assignment. That English class remains one of my favourite classes, even though I'm in Computing Science.
Creativity should be encouraged. To have creativity, one needs an imagination. I'm worried that kids are greatly lacking an imagination. Many of my friends spent their childhoods watching TV, whereas I spent it playing with Lego. While I played "time machine" or pretended to be Harry Potter with a pokedex, other kids would play games with pre-defined rules like soccer. Then they go to school and are told to look, but not create.
Or maybe this is all necessary to prevent the world from becoming over-saturated with imaginative people. In our world, there is, after all, a greater need for people that will blindly follow orders and blindly consume than there is for people that will create things and think.
I guess it's because school is about preparing you for work, where you're not supposed to have imagination. Just do as your told, follow others directions, and don't ask questions. "Creativity isn't allowed here. Analyze these data, present a report, and do this until you're 65."
I'm glad we got to do creative things on the government-created final exams if we chose to. Not only did they boost my already high marks (not trying to brag, just saying), but they let me do some creative writing. Something I wasn't allowed to do, since I had to write another damn essay on Shakespeare.
I also had a great professor in University for English that actually required us to do a creative assignment. That English class remains one of my favourite classes, even though I'm in Computing Science.
Creativity should be encouraged. To have creativity, one needs an imagination. I'm worried that kids are greatly lacking an imagination. Many of my friends spent their childhoods watching TV, whereas I spent it playing with Lego. While I played "time machine" or pretended to be Harry Potter with a pokedex, other kids would play games with pre-defined rules like soccer. Then they go to school and are told to look, but not create.
Or maybe this is all necessary to prevent the world from becoming over-saturated with imaginative people. In our world, there is, after all, a greater need for people that will blindly follow orders and blindly consume than there is for people that will create things and think.
I believe that knowledge is more important than imagination, especially where human development is concerned. Knowledge is a necessary foundation, one without which we cannot advance at all.awesomeClaw said:
Imagination on the other hand, whilst responsible for much of what we have achieved and incredibly important in its own right, is useless without sound knowledge upon which to draw.
I'll put it this way. It allows for the creation of more knowledge. The two are related in many ways.
Imagination drives things forward while knowledge keeps the status quo.
I wouldn't consider one more important than the other though.
I wouldn't consider one more important than the other though.
Imagination may be what makes us want to learn, discover and explore, but it won't help you much in a practical sense.
We can also imagine our own reality, because in a way reality is whatever an individuals mind percieves it to be, but that doesn't make it real.
We can also imagine our own reality, because in a way reality is whatever an individuals mind percieves it to be, but that doesn't make it real.
I know some stuff, I think some stuff but I imagine EVERYTHING. All that I could never grasp with reason or rhyme is disregarded and thrown in there anyway for good measure. Im all for people being clever and the like ( apparently its beneficial ) but some things are more important...like breasts. I can handle it when people are stupid, because hey....some people are just stupid right? ( i'm a prime example ) But when people are just utterly unimaginative and bland, that's when I lose faith in humanity
