Oh, the World of Statistics

So I saw someone did a quote about advertising, so I decided to do a quote about creativity. YAY! So my quote is by Mark Twain who said, "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." My interpretation, though somewhat biased because I just read Hard Times by Charles Dickens, is that there can be no real use or development of the imagination if it is based on facts alone. When one thinks of statistics and numbers and cold hard facts and only what is tangible and visual it limits the borders of the mind. Which, frankly, is ridiculous. The mind, the imagination is limitless. It brings us to places we have never been; it has created objects which have never been made or seen. Statistics and facts are important, but there must be a happy medium. Facts can only take one so far until emotion, compassion and empathy must kick in.
Unfortunately, I believe, as do others, that the developments in technology have made it somewhat challenging for children to imagine. I believe they limit creativity for the users. In a video game the world and characters have already been created. There is no need to turn your backyard into another dimension where you're all alien fairies anymore. My niece and nephew never want to go outside and just play. She needs to being her Gameboy and he just wants his Leapfrog. It's already started to happen with my generation and will continue to happen in the future that we learn to repeat. We stop analyzing and questioning and just say, "OK." Memorizing information for a test, only doing what we need to do to get an "A" is not helping us. It is a very passive way of educating ourselves.
Memorizing and learning rules only gets us so far. The statistics can only get us so far. "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."