Chapter 1 (24/06/2013) 1.

An example of how an ordinary thing was made into something extraordinary: Gutenberg combined a wine press with a coin punch to create the printing press. An example of how something unusual was made into something commonplace. Haydn used a symphony to convince the Duke, his boss, to give a vacation to the musicians. 2. Yes, I think this kind of exercise can encourage people to think creatively. It's a good way to break ordinary answers. And it's funny to. 3. I'm totally agreed with this assertive. I think school is the place, in our days that is responsible for killing kids' creativity. The existence of the questions of multiple choices is, for example, an absurd. I had a teacher in my college who usually used to say: "can you imagine it? Multiple choices of just one right answer". I have a son, a boy, who is 8 years old. Last week his teacher asked him to make a cartoon story about an ecological theme. He drew a forest and conflict between men and animal because men wanted to build a mall. He put quotes - men and animal arguing with each other, and at the end, in the last space, it was empty - there was nothing, the silence, every one was died. The teacher corrected it, has put a question mark, and wrote: "you have forgotten to write the last quotes, so, your note was 75%. Discussion & writing 1. People who works in big international companies must to be prepare to be more creative. They have to be prepared to keep the mind open to the new. They usually have to create product for people all over the world. So they must avoid the prejudice and have to look the different without fear. 2. I'm not sure if I have understood the meaning of this anecdote. I don't think that learning is something that you can add like tea in an empty cup. I think exactly the opposite. People learn when they can compare that what they already know with the new. And more, teachers couldn't deposit knowledge in the students head. The knowledge is something that must be building for each one.

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