“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination spans the world”. Albert Einstein

Children are not born with imagination. They have to be taught it and encouraged in it by teachers, by fairy tales and tales of bravery, daring and so on. They have to be read to, told true stories, encouraged to read themselves, and be embued with a love of and thirst for knowledge. In America there is a dismal section of the population which thinks that only dull facts (historical dates?), statistics, details of the American Constitution, grammar and spelling constitute education. They are creating a dull and literal population.

Epicurus, were he alive today, would advocate a broader approach to education, where children are encouraged to think for themselves and outside the box.