Curosity and creativity – some analogies March 7, 2009
Posted by Karen in creativity, education, ideas, thoughts on product/service innovation.Tags: bright future, creativity, curosity, education, purpose of education
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I’ve always thought that curositiy and creativity are linked.
And I also think that truly intelligent people are generally creative. But not all creative people are intelligent. One may be able to arrange different combinations into different novel designs but may not be cut to do academic or intellectul rigour activities in the conventional sense; or may not be able to handle life situations well.
To me, intelligence means a whole lot more than handling just design problems on the paper or by craft. It really means how one is able to handle a good multitude of problems and be able to nose into the right path and fish out the solution even without the help of a teacher or a book.
Curiosity and keen observation skills cannot be taught. In which I always beieve that schools are only there to deliver the skills and open the way for advanced technologies in the industry. In that sense, schools serve that purpose well. And it is always good to continue studies. But it must be totally receptive and able to handle differences well too. Which is not an always easy and diplomatic thing to do at all in today’s educational establishments. But at the base point, schools and other educational establishments should foster ethics seriously. For a future depends on graduates, and the quality of the future depends solely on how positive thinking of the ethically correct graduates are. Failing of being just and bright, wise and creative, we will not have a future that is glowing in the right way that we all need right now.
Time for me going back to play around online for a while before going to my bee hive (bed). Everyone in the family has gone to snooze except me fiddling on my PC. I am way too curious to sleep before I know what I am looking at. Which is really a problem of a lot of things in my life so far…… Problem Me, Karen Fu……..
our hunger prangs and the world’s hungry January 4, 2009
Posted by Karen in ideas, poverty, world problems.Tags: economic turmoil, food, hunger, solutions for poverty, world hunger, world poverty
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I often sleep late and often feel hungry after the last meal. So I often sneak to the kitchen fridge to look for numbles… one night under the midnight moon, after following up the day’s woes of world news, I was wondering:
what happens if the world were to finally crash - banks and governments would crash on us all flat despite the advanced system that we have and despite the brains that we have to save the crisis ? We would be in an eventual and prolonged state of hunger..
so how to solve our individual hunger ?
- you fill your tummy up whatever you have
- you work until you forget about hunger
- you eat less to train yourself to get full with just that little
- you use techniques from biotechnologies to create hybrids of crops
- you create your own domestic farm and grow your own crops your own way at your residence
- if you don’t know any techniques at all, at worst you may be tempted to eat any living beings within your sight..
but how would you solve hunger in the world and hunger at home or hunger prangs that you have for good ?
One way would to change our diets. Perhaps away from meats and go for insects , worms and wild plants ? Or cut down waste in the first place and go for anything that you could grow and learn to share ?
As we talk, there are at least some half a billion people in the world alone who are in absolute hunger. Not to mention about those who are neither very well off or very hungry. In the coming months, there will be more people who are out of jobs globally and few countries have the immunity to get away from the current financial turmoil. It teaches us all a lesson. But whether we all learnt that is anybody’s guess.
When I thought about these issues, I was no longer hungry anymore.
Perhaps its high time to think of standbys instead of waiting for solutions by others.
picture source: http://www.geographyalltheway.com/ib_geography/ib_resources/imagesetc/map_world_hunger.jpg
Karen
