“The success of an illustration depends on how intimately it tells a specific story or suits intent, instead of how it was produced.”

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​Bobby W. Parker Jr.

Lessons from Lehrer’s Imagine for Cultivating Student Creativity

Everyone agrees that creativity is a key skill.  But we’re not teaching our kids this skill.  We’ve become so obsessed with rote learning, with making sure that kids memorize the year of some old battle.  But in this day and age that’s the least valuable kind of learning. That’s stuff you can look up on your phone.  If our graduates our going to succeed in the real world, then they have to be able to make stuff.