On Friday, May 19, 2000, Dang Cao wrote:

"[The] dream of today will be the reality of tommorrow."  A beautiful quote by Buscaglia.  Yet, we've forgotten to dream.  Why is it we have forgotten to dream?  Is it the structure that we have been taught in school ?  That could possibly be one of the problems.  Sometimes we are taught in so structured a way, that we have forgotten how to be creative.  And the dream is associated with creativity.  "

On Saturday, May 20, 2000, jeanne responded:

You have made a good point, Dang, one also made by J.P.Guilford in The Nature of Human Intelligence, back in the 70s when U.S. psychologists began to recognize the importance of understanding the mind and creativity as it relates to learning.

Categorical thinking is very limited, and in the interest of making learning more efficient, and more marketable, we have developed a curriculum that is over-categorized. Creativity depends on synthesis and imagination, not on the proliferation of myriad digestable bites of knowledge isolated in tiny sub-disciplines. References here would include Minow, who expresses this same concern with the categorical thinking of the law.