Andre,
This is an moq issue. I would say this is a heart issue in the moq.
Being creative.
Lila (Chapter 26) :
"Philosophology is to philosophy as
musicology is to music, or as
art history and art appreciation are to art, or
as literary criticism is
to creative writing. It's a derivative, secondary
field, a sometimes
parasitic growth that likes to think it controls its host by
analyzing
and intellectualizing its host's behavior."
Lila (Ch. 26):
"Literature,
musicology, art history and philosophology thrive in
academic institutions
because they are easy to teach. You just
Xerox something some philosopher has
said and make the
students discuss it, make them memorize it, and then flunk
them
at the end of the quarter if they forget it. Actual painting,
music
composition and creative writing are almost impossible to
teach and so they
barely get in the academic door. True philosophy
doesn't get in at all.
Philosophologists often have an interest in
creating philosophy but, as philosophologists,
they subordinate it,
much as a literary scholar might subordinate his own
interest in
creative writing. Unless they are exceptional they don't consider
the creation of philosophy their real line of work."
Lila (Ch. 26):
"Since you've already done your
creative thinking before you read
James, you don't just go along with him. You
get all kinds of fresh
new ideas by contrasting what he's saying with what you
already
believe. You're not limited by any dead-ends of his thought and
can
often see ways of going around him."
Well, that's enough of quotes. I think you can identify with this
in what your saying about China students and creativity. This isn't
all about China. This is something occurring around the world. Creativity
is the root rebellion, the root spark in freedom.
wild,
woods
P.S. We don't need to keep talking about this. I just didn't want you to
think what we were talking had nothing to do with the moq.
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