>I lay NO stock in knowing a particular thing.

>Creativity….is achieved by being interested in an existing thing, getting to know it better and then finding new ways to combine it with other things.

Dave, these statements of yours, are they a little contradictory to your overarching view that creativity should be the product of an educational system? Are you suggesting that in order to be creative, one must know about a thing, but at the same time, you place no value in knowing about a thing?