Imagination: Key to Learning

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Imagination: Key to Learning

Empathy—the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this.

If I wish to comprehend what frontier life in the early history of the United States might be I could empathize with the family moving West in a covered wagon, picking a piece of land, and making that their home.

If I did imagine the efforts of such a family what would I discover about the concept ‘creativity’?

I have come down this path because I am trying to understand the concept ‘creativity’.

Can there be an experience more creative than that which such a family might enjoy?

The survival of the family depends upon the creativity they manage.

This reminds me of the movie “Patton” when General Patton says something to the effect that “War is man’s deepest expression of total commitment—God how I love it”.