CHILDREN LOOSING THE ABILITY TO IMAGINE AND CREATE

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(snip) Adult life begins in a child’s imagination,” said poet Dana Gioia, speaking before the graduating class of Stanford University in June 2007. “And we’ve relinquished that imagination to the marketplace.”

They feed us an endless stream of stock imagery and flashy distractions—“content” that comes predigested and does little or nothing in the way of encouraging us to form our own mental images, ideas, or stories. http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=128859