EStokes comments on The Future of Education - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Michelle_Z 14 February 2012 08:58PM

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Comment author: EStokes 14 February 2012 11:00:02PM 0 points [-]

Hmm, Creative Arts seems useless for its intended purpose. The only thing I can think of that might have a benefit is Performance Arts though I don't really know, and it seems to me there'd be more effective ways to teach communication skills in the personal development class.

Comment author: Gabriel 15 February 2012 01:27:59AM 9 points [-]

Yes, the author seems to follow the typical conceptualization of creativity as something inherently mysterious and irreducible, accessible only through extreme artsiness. Rather than the thing that happens in your head whenever you're facing a problem for which you lack a ready-made algorithm.