"Imagination
is more important than knowledge" – Albert Einstein
Why would one
of the smartest people in history say something so counterintuitive? We are
taught to depend on knowledge; that it is power. Furthermore, we are taught to depend on knowledge that was
created by others. We spend
countless hours studying and memorizing knowledge others conjured up in their
imagination. After memorizing what
we studied, our intelligence is assessed.
If we retained most of the knowledge created by others, we are deemed
intelligent.
However,
knowledge is from
