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<<< When folks on the forum complain about competition from "whining college kids" ( by the way they really do whine, I know )>>> Please do not interpret the following as deliberate baiting, nor blatant hostility: CHILDRE6 S12/Take 5/Want Ads 29-May-95 14:16:14 <<CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS tend to be more creative and imaginitive than ADULTS because of a lack of rationality. I, for one, can support the theory, because I am still quite young, and have been living with this reality. This is in no way of saying that a human "degrades", nor "de-evolves". I am just saying that adults shy away from fictional, irrational, and illogical concepts that children usually crave. A wonderful conversation starter. Ive been teaching at the college level where I deal with adolecents, adults and old folks in classes that demand imagination and creativity, amon) and are a more creative group than average. On the other hand maybe the strong belief that we seem to hold as a culture, that we lose creative imagination as we get older, is not supported in reality. BTW this belief in a more creative innocent childhood is a reletivly recent phenonoma, developing during the romantic period and influenced by tg, but most real world creative endevours require enormous dicipline and ability to work for long periods of time before the results are apparent. Animation, drawing, architecture, fashion, name it and the preparation is long and intense. There are so many students who have imagination but cannot come to terms with life on the material plane. They want to paint without learning to draw. They want to animate without learning the language of film. They are unable tgination and plodding workmanship ( the ideal combination ). Computers fool these folks into thinking that there is a painless way to produce without preperation. My wife tells me I am a child. Maybe those of us who remain creative and imaginative into adulthood have found a way to keep a precious part of childhood. She says thats no reason not to pick up your clothes. Ed