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Originally Posted by Michele Rushworth
It's a sorry state of affairs in accredited art colleges, and has been for thirty years. Imagine a college level music student being told that they are never to study the violin, the piano or music history and oh, by the way, if they learned scales when they were younger, they are to immediately forget them, they're evil and "limiting to a musician's creativity."
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Oh, this is one of my biggest peeves ever. I won't even call it a "pet" peeve because the thing's a monster. Architects are creative beings aren't they? What then if one decided learning how to structure a building so it wouldn't fall down was too limiting to his creative potential? Some architect he'd be, huh? And, what would
his professors say?
Engineers and scientists are creative beings. So what, must they reinvent the wheel every-time they want to discover a new fuel, or build a new type of car? When they walk into class are they told to forget the laws of nature as they are too limiting to their potential?
I see a class full of freshmen cavemen trying to make fire...
"Ug! Did the teacher explain how to make fire?"
"No, Og. She said if she did, it would be her just
telling us how to make fire. She said it would be best to figure it out for ourselves. Then it will be
our fire."
"Really?" Og says. "Oh, Ug! I have a spark!"
"Yes, yes. I see! I heard you're supposed to blow on it"
Og blows on his spark and it disappears. Ug says, "Yes, mine disappeared when I blew on it, too."
"How much are we paying for this class?" Og says. "And when do we get to look into a microscope?"
"Oh, no microscopes, Og. The professor says they'll hamper our creativity."