<story><title>Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence?</title><url>http://gettingsmart.com/blog/2011/12/why-don%E2%80%99t-we-value-spatial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brandall10</author><text>&quot;Imagination is more important than knowledge.&quot; - Albert Einstein&lt;p&gt;&quot;When he moved from Germany to Switzerland at the age of sixteen, Einstein spent a year at a school that emphasized independent thought, free action and personal responsibility. He thrived in a learning environment without rote drills, memorization and force-fed facts.&lt;p&gt;Based on the philosophy of a Swiss educator named Pestalozzi, the school helped students move through a series of steps from hands-on observations to intuition, conceptualization, imagination and visual imagery.&lt;p&gt;“Visual understanding is the essential and only true means of teaching how to judge things correctly,” wrote Pestaslozzi, and “the learning of numbers and language must be definitely subordinated&quot;&lt;p&gt;...It was at this school that Einstein, age sixteen, started picturing what it would be like to ride along a beam of light.”&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sparkmygenius.com/2007/07/myth-busted-einstein-on-education/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sparkmygenius.com/2007/07/myth-busted-einstein-on-edu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence?</title><url>http://gettingsmart.com/blog/2011/12/why-don%E2%80%99t-we-value-spatial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fleitz</author><text>Who is we? At best you can say that the school system and large bureaucracies don&apos;t value these skills. Certainly Apple and the British empire value Ive&apos;s contribution to design immensely.&lt;p&gt;The Tony Starks of the world are not meant to be low level grunts, keep in mind that the school system is designed to produce interchangeable parts to work in large manufacturing and bureaucratic organizations such as fortune 100s, the government and the military. The levels of leaders who self select out is acceptable and therefore the system will not be changed.&lt;p&gt;The school system is not for the betterment of the people who go through it; it is for the benefit of the owners. It&apos;s not a bug that our school system produces learned helplessness it&apos;s a feature.</text></comment>