Why we need a new kind of education: Imagination Studies | Aeon Essays

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We need a new kind of approach to learning that shifts imagination from the periphery to the foundation of all knowledge

A chasm divides our view of human knowledge and human nature. According to the logic of the chasm, facts are the province of experimental science, while values are the domain of religion and art; the body (and brain) is the machinery studied by scientists, while the mind is a quasi-mystical reality to be understood by direct subjective experience; reason is the faculty that produces knowledge, while emotion generates art; STEM is one kind of education, and the liberal arts are wholly other. These are no longer productive ways to organise knowledge in the 21st century. Within the logic of…

Why we need a new kind of education: Imagination Studies | Aeon Essays

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