The Creativity Crisis
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- BoneCrusher0
"If you think about it, "American" education, creativity, test scores, etc. was never really an issue prior to the 1980s. Why? Because it's all relative. The bar has simply been raised with the steady influx of Asian immigrants since the early 1980s. (Korean, Japanese, Indian, etc.)"
Also FUCKING wrong. Some of you are amazingly stupid.
- lukus_W0
Recession is good for art .. things will pick up.
- whatsup0
@ morning_star- i never said it was wrong. In fact the researchers in the article would agree that art schools already posses the needed creativity that they want to teach in schools...
"Researchers say creativity should be taken out of the art room and put into homeroom."
in other words art students already possess these needed creative skills that the business world desire. All the many art schools around the world, exploding with creativity and they want to harness it. So they want to give the "uncreative" people the creativity? Why not boost the people who are already creative? People like you, I, and the people on QBN who are already creative. Do numbers, facts and figures inspire or even teach you to be more creative?
Creativity is not on a "downfall" then. In fact, I believe it's been on a rise ever since man drew on walls. If I score 100 kids one year, and again in ten years on creativity, I'm bound to get different results based on the types of people. Not everyone possesses the skills of the creative. People like Van Gogh died a poor man before anyone could realize how awesome he was. But then again, how in the world do you score creativity?
So the facts in the article were left up for interpretation and not for inspiration so I thought it was boring. There are lots of creative people in this world as art schools keep pouring thousands of them out every year.
- JSK0
USA USA USA USA USA!
- i_monk0
decisionman:
The first draft of Inception was written shortly after The Matrix/eXistenZ/the 13th Floor/Dark City premiered.
All 4 movies deal with the idea of layers of awareness and reality; two of them include alterable architecture/cityscapes, and two of them end with the revelation or suggestion that there is yet another level beyond what was perceived as 'reality' the characters returned to.
That said, there are no new stories, and everything is a rehash of something told around a camp file 4000 years ago.
- BoneCrusher0
whatsup, you are a borderline idiot.
whatsup said: "So they want to give the "uncreative" people the creativity? Why not boost the people who are already creative? "
Because the uncreative drones are a problem, for society, for the economy, for our politics, and for our personal well-being.
whatsup said: "Do numbers, facts and figures inspire or even teach you to be more creative?"
Yes, they absolutely can. Creativity can come from anywhere. The most useful creative solutions actually address those facts, figures, and numbers. They improve our lives in real ways.
whatsup said: "In fact, I believe it's been on a rise ever since man drew on walls."
You have no proof of this. This is purely your guess, and probably based on some idea of technical mastery, rather than any true notion of creativity.
whatsup said: "If I score 100 kids one year, and again in ten years on creativity, I'm bound to get different results based on the types of people. "
No shit, that's not the point of the article nor the study. The point is to study changes in generations, not individuals.
whatsup said: "So the facts in the article were left up for interpretation and not for inspiration so I thought it was boring."
It's in fucking Newsweek, not the Louvre. The article isn't supposed to make you creative or "inspire" you, you fucking dolt.
- JSK0
USA?
- BoneCrusher0
"So they want to give the "uncreative" people the creativity?"
Only an insecure, uncreative moron would think that creativity is something that can be given and taken away, like some scarce resource.
- neue75_bold0
"Give me the kid with a passion to learn and a curiosity to discover and I will take him or her over the less passionate kid with a huge IQ every day of the week."
(r)at,at,at
take out, trap
- ukit0
Bonecrusher, with cheerful posts like this http://www.qbn.com/topics/635790… it's no surprise you're eager to believe that creativity is in the shitter.
"Design is an ultimately worthless industry and career. Somewhere between selling insurance and baby portrait photography."
Can someone say failed designer?
- mistereight0
thats a radical notion
- decisionman0
@JSK – that's kinda dead on. Can't remember the last movie (besides Inception) that wasn't something remade, remixed, refreshed or rebooted.
Ah. Christopher Nolan. He's British.
And I'm Canadian. Phew!
- 8 and a half is suppose to be like inception dunno though but yeah redoing movies can be great but boring nothing newmistereight
- newmistereight