indoctrination stops the imagination?

[AtheistSeri]

Well I was thinking about this and wonder that when a child is indoctrinated, does that child lose the will to have a real imagination, dream etc. But really im just asking this as a question, when children are taught that magic is evil and you should never thing about it, would not that make the childs imagination less......imagative?

Please your options.

 

[david_x]

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

 

[juvenissun]

Well I was thinking about this and wonder that when a child is indoctrinated, does that child lose the will to have a real imagination, dream etc. But really im just asking this as a question, when children are taught that magic is evil and you should never thing about it, would not that make the childs imagination less......imagative?

Please your options.

Imagination can not be limited no matter what you do. Otherwise, it is not imagination any more. So, the OP asked a wrong question.

 

[variant]

Well I was thinking about this and wonder that when a child is indoctrinated, does that child lose the will to have a real imagination, dream etc. But really im just asking this as a question, when children are taught that magic is evil and you should never thing about it, would not that make the childs imagination less......imagative?

Please your options.

If that were true we wouldn't have all these religions in the first place.

 

[Beechwell]

I don't think one necessatily needs to read about magic to develop a healthy imagination. But generally I agree; if you want you child (or an adult even) to be creative, intelligent and independent, don't lay his imagination in shakles.

That is actually the main theme of The Neverending Story by Michael Ende: Both the vital importance of our imagination to our lives, and the danger of losing ourselves in it, forgetting who we are. One has to be able to visit 'Fantasia' and bring it's essence back into our world.
I higly recommend the book to anyone. Just don't watch the awful movies. While the original one at least makes an effort to capture the magic of the book, it completely spoils the essence of the book in the end; the following atrocities I don't even want to talk about.

 

[david_x]

It would be rather irresponsible for People not to indoctrinate their children concerning many things. If people just let their children think that murder was fine, we would have a rather messed up world.

 

[juvenissun]

It would be rather irresponsible for People not to indoctrinate their children concerning many things. If people just let their children think that murder was fine, we would have a rather messed up world.

Let's have some imagination: Is murder really bad? Is assassination "sometimes" good?

 

[david_x]

Let's have some imagination: Is murder really bad? Is assassination "sometimes" good?

Lol, good one.

 

[bricklayer]

All of man's ideas are intellectual perceptions, we cannot conceive ideas.

 

[juvenissun]

Lol, good one.

Don't laugh. You do not really know what is good and what is bad.

 

[david_x]

Don't laugh. You do not really know what is good and what is bad.

Lol, keep it going.

 

[keith99]

Let's have some imagination: Is murder really bad? Is assassination "sometimes" good?

One look at my avatar and a knowledgable person can guess myh stand on assination.

Pretty handsome for a guy who is missing an eye, a hand and who almost lost his life when his car was straffed by an allied fighter.

 

[freezerman2000]

It depends on what the child is being indoctrinated into...the "indoctrinators" would say it is a good thing...the folks on the other side of the isle would disagree .It depends on what side you are on...
Me, I'm on the side that thinks that all indoctrination that is detrimental to a person's full potential is wrong.

 

[sk8Joyful]

Right: all indoctrination detrimental to a person's full potential is wrong." - Right.

 

[Received]

Insofar as a belief is indoctrinated, a person is emotionally attached to it. In this sense it prohibits other possibilities than the belief in place, and so limits thinking. But the odd thing is that, in limiting one's thought to one specific (indoctrinated) position, the person can really apply all types of imaginative reasoning to defend the position he wants to stay above water. The indoctrinated person can easily think a lot more than the indoctrinated one, much in the same way that gymnastics involves more physical activity than walking.

 

[sandwiches]

Let's have some imagination: Is murder really bad? Is assassination "sometimes" good?

Yes, to both, I'd say. It seems your post, if you were being sarcastic, might indeed be EXACTLY what the OP was talking about: limited imagination due to indoctrination.

 

[Stephen Kendall]

All of man's ideas are intellectual perceptions, we cannot conceive ideas.

I remember daydreaming for hours, perhaps years. Some good and some not. I have dreamt all types of dreams, some day dreams were more imaginative then the crazy ones of night. My imagination would shoot off like a rocket to the moon with just a simple question from an instructor about some sort of science scenario or problem. Answers come so easy with a rocket imagination. Is this just intelligence or are we able to go where no man has gone before? Can we freely think, imagine and try out many possibilities in our head(s)? It is dumb to try to limit things when nothing is truly impossible, including us.

 

[quatona]

It would be rather irresponsible for People not to indoctrinate their children concerning many things. If people just let their children think that murder was fine, we would have a rather messed up world.

Left to their own devices children tend to think that murder is fine.

 

[bricklayer]

I remember daydreaming for hours, perhaps years. Some good and some not. I have dreamt all types of dreams, some day dreams were more imaginative then the crazy ones of night. My imagination would shoot off like a rocket to the moon with just a simple question from an instructor about some sort of science scenario or problem. Answers come so easy with a rocket imagination. Is this just intelligence or are we able to go where no man has gone before? Can we freely think, imagine and try out many possibilities in our head(s)? It is dumb to try to limit things when nothing is truly impossible, including us.

The difference between our ideas and God's ideas is that we are not the first to have our ideas. We have no original concepts.

 

[Stephen Kendall]

The difference between our ideas and God's ideas is that we are not the first to have our ideas. We have no original concepts.

Being first then is free and second to infinity is a problem. Sounds like that train of thought is a problem, even for the first. If we have life then we must have depth of thought and random ideas. Where is it that life makes copies and not like the life as it was in the origin? Think about it. Are we copies or originals. Does DNA union in the womb produce a copy or an original? In us in our lives after birth, DNA can only make copies till we lose info and have the DNA death _errors.

Tell me that my five year son is a copy and I will tell you that you haven't met him and that you must come to the surface to breathe air like the rest of us, sooner or later. My son has more energy in his imagination coming out than is being put into him. He is a well-spring of ideas coming from an unknown source.