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You go right on thinking that.  My creative child will be ordering yours to do spreadsheets when she comes up with the next great idea, and yours is used to rote learning.  Last laugh will be with me I think.[/quote]

where do people get this idea that it either has be creativity or worksheets. My DD 5yo is HIGHLY creative (legoes, coloring, finished writing her third story today - all her initiatives BTW) and on the daily basis does 230 Kumon addition problems takes her 10min with 100% accuracy.

(on a silly note) if we are getting into hypothetical pissing contests  :) , I think, my kid will be in a STEM program and will get BS, MS and PhD from MIT while your kid will drop out from a local community and end up working in starbucks [i]creatively[/i] making a grande latte for my kid.

(on a more serious note) can anyone honestly explain to me why is it soo terribly bad for kids to focus for 20 min every night on reading or math. do you think that 20 min (during the 5 h of after school time) of structured concentration will stagnate creatively in a child. it is interesting to see how many people bet all of their "money" only on creativity. Is it really all that is needed to become successful? I don to subscribe to "everyone is stupid but me" philosophy so I am honestly looking for solid justification behind the "creatively is all that matters" approach.   would not you want to "hedge" your bets and put your "money" on several approaches.  [/quote]

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