Fiction IS fake. It can also help with learning through imagination, but please don’t teach incorrect definitions to kids. That’s literally how we ended up with literally.
please don’t teach incorrect definitions to kids
She’s describing a lesson plan. Not an incorrect definition. Perhaps if you had been taught by someone like the librarian who wrote the tweet you’d be better at thinking abstractly and have an easier time understand the difference.
Wow, you sure are rude.
I would prefer to call it learning through play. Religion is fiction that can teach you about ethics, but you better not take that shit aerioua or literally.
For many types of careers - like science is one - imagination is more important than raw intelligence. Being able to think clearly inside the box only gets you so far, while the people who advance our society by leaps and bounds are those who think not only of what is but of what could be. The engineers and tinkerers (who are important too!) can do the rest, but we NEED those creative thinkers! Even/especially when many people think that we do not.
What’s with the assumption that just because a person understands something that they can’t possible expand on it? Additionally why would being “creative” mean that you can’t think “inside the box.”
Because it’s a stereotypical black and white world and someone cannot do both, okay?!
In reality, creative new advances can only be made by mastering the “inside the box” part to a degree where one can ascend it.
The entire purpose of engineering as a field is to use outside of the box methodology to solve problems. Creativity is a crucial skill for good engineers. The idea that those two skill sets are mutually exclusive is wrong.
Upvoting! Yes, science is one but definitely not the only one. Not all engineering is of that type but yes a good deal of it is. Most STEM fields are I would guess.
Okay but why
I guess to reframe fiction so kids understand that it still can be useful but idk
People already have trouble separating fiction from real life, let’s not make it worse.
