Philip Pogson said:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>Drawing together some of the strings on this list, I see us heading in two
>broad directions.
>
>One direction seems to be focussed around attempts to categorise the LO
>concept, tying it down with all sorts of caveats and "must do s" and "can't
>do s," definitions, scientific and pseudo scientific posturing,laws, rules
>exclusions, and such like.
>
>Questions and posts in this stream are around:
> > Debates over definitions
> > Clashes of concept that do not work productively as the protagonists
>seem unable to surface their underlying assumptions
> > Attempts to differentiate rather than integrate related ideas
>
>This sometimes reminds me of the so-called Scholastic
>Philosophers around such topics such as "how many angels can dance on the
>head of a pin?")
>
>The second stream seems to me about creativity, analogy, dialogue,
>exploration, dreaming and imagination.
I also like more the changes in mental models than the amount of data
learned, but in order to "think differently" aren't we suppose to expose
our "definitions" and criticise the "concepts" so after we see many
points of view around a subject to be able to jump in a "different" such
point?
>David Bohm once wrote:" The ability to perceive or think differently >is
>more important than the knowledge gained."
>And Einstein is reputed to have said: "Imagination is more important than
>knowledge"
I'd like to know your "definition" of imagination in order to get your
point. In my opinion the imagination is based on the experience of other
"images" we saw or built as representations of the reality in our mind,
consciously or not, and these last are for me the bigest part of my
knowledge. Still, yes the imagination is more important than knowledge if
you are speaking about progress, because taking the same roads will lead
you always to the same place, and the power of imagination is the capacity
of combining the known images in new ways.
>If two physicists can get to this point, I'm interested in the opinions out
>there. Are we spending too much time counting angels on pinheads?
So, if we hope learn something, we still have to dedicate a lot of time in
finding others images before trying to combine it and add some value.
"There is no right or wrong, there is only right and wrong"
Demostene Iva
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