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[Mizu]

I'll plop this in this sub-forum just because it deals with such.



Are the Petroglyph developers still alive? Your thoughts on it? How about those that used to draw or submit stuff here? What are your thoughts? I sure as hell will vouch that schools do kill creativity, even if they say they add to it...slightly.

[Piglet]

I remember a thread like this... Or is it just me?

[number15]

There's no short term profit in what he says, so the law of averages says it will take a long time for his point of view to come across and really have any impact.

Humans reckon in the immediate. He may be right, but it will take time for pre-unversity education to value a mind instead of evauluating it's usefulness.

[Valdez]

Mizu, on 18 July 2011 - 11:28 PM, said:

How about those that used to draw or submit stuff here? What are your thoughts? I sure as hell will vouch that schools do kill creativity, even if they say they add to it...slightly.

Current education systems don't kill creativity, they just keep a tight reign it because left unchecked, people do all sorts of stupid things and pass it off as creativity while forgetting that the very point of something being creative in the first place is that it has to be of value, not just something new and original.

Edited by Valdez, 03 August 2011 - 11:52 PM.

[The Archon]

I like the statement "She's a dancer".  It's better than the current popular idea that "she just needs to be taught mathematics visually or aurally".

Personally, I'm not a creative person (unless I'm designing a data structure), so I can't really relate to the ideas of education inflation, or being incompatible with conventional teaching or syllabi.

Val: In a free market, "artists" who don't make art would either learn to change, or be Darwinized.  I suppose it's the job of the parents to make sure that their kids understand this... though, as the guy in the video said, this leads to lots of "don't do music, you won't make a living from it.  Why not study law instead?".

As far as I can tell, the function of a degree in fine arts/music/drama is to teach better techniques (and, I presume, to meet people and built connections, like with any other degree).  I don't know the purpose of a generic arts degree.

[Madelyn]

It is a good question. I think everything depends on a certain teacher, their attitude and approach, their tasks. Personally, I was lucky with my teachers at school, and I got more creative tasks since the others as I attended a poetry club and started writing poetry and prose then.

[Piglet]

I think you have a very good point, Madelyn.

Also, welcome!

Beware the sticks and please, for the love of God post often D:

[Dei]

Piglet, on 10 January 2012 - 03:46 PM, said:

I think you have a very good point, Madelyn.

Also, welcome!

Beware the sticks and please, for the love of God post often D:

*points at the signature*

[Piglet]

Yeah I saw that too but I am hoping 'it' is not a bot... 'it' knew what it was talking about...