Bring Back Imagination in Children

Posted on March 10, 2008
Filed Under Helping Parents Help Kids, Imagination, Learning Tips, Teaching Tips |

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

These are our sentiments, but not our words; they belong to Albert Einstein.

If the words speak the truth, then why has imagination been allowed to slip so far down in the educational scheme of things?

We feel strongly that the time is right for an “Imagination Renaissance.”

Let’s skip the blaming and name calling; instead, let’s focus on thinking of ways to stimulate imagination in children.

In schools, lets start pushing less heavily on knowledge for testing, while at the same time begin pushing more heavily on imagination—as in thinking—in children.

Let’s not limit the push to schools; let’s be sure to nurture it in our homes, too.

Don’t you agree that the pendulum has swung far enough—that the time is right for an “Imagination Renaissance?”

If you are interested, there are lots of tips on jump starting imagination in children in our book for parents and teachers Why Bad Grades Happen to Good Kids and in our Creative Thinking Workbooks for children 5-12 years.

Linda & Al Silbert

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