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Requin
March 26th, 2009, 12:12 PM
I want your views on Creativity and Knowledge and is one more important than the other.
Here's a video from the TED conference to get ya thinking. It's Sir Ken Robinson doing a funny and clever talk on schools and creativity. Its well worth a watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

So ideas and thoughts welcome.
Oh, I DO NOT want a debate here, just ideas and your opinions/beliefs on the question.

EDIT:
So, my opinion on this.

Well after writing an enitre essay about the bloody thing, I came to the conclusion that they are like two peas in a pod. Without one it's hard to acomplish something relative in the other.

So you can be really creative in something, but if you don't know how to do it, or flaunt it, then what's the point? Okay, there are exceptions..
but it's also hard to use something that you have incredible knowledge on, but if you have no creatity skills, then what's the point? It'll be all technique and no ideas.

That's a brief version of my conclusion.

Hauptmann Kauffman
April 7th, 2009, 01:23 AM
Depends on the type of person you are. Knowledge brings intellectual satisfaction while creativity brings emotional well-being. I am in the middle on this

rivermaya
April 7th, 2009, 03:28 AM
I think creativity is more important since knowledge will only get you so far. Creativity breeds new ideas while knowledge simply relies on past results.

Underground_Network
April 8th, 2009, 02:00 PM
I think without knowledge you can't be very creative. They go hand in hand. I think knowledge goes nowhere by itself, but the same goes for creativity. You can have one without the other, but they work best together.