Sipping my morning coffee, feeling guilty about criticizing Pedro Noguera, I see Albert Einstein staring at me from the Liberty Science Center coffee mug. It is coated with a substance that comes to life when heated and out pops, of course, ?EMC2? and this:
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I hate that quote.? I hated it even more when?I saw it?on a big poster, with the?famous scientist's famous mug, in our middle school.?Do I have to take on Einstein too???So early in the morning?
Revv up Google and there it is, at?thinkexist.com, but with a second sentence (sic):
Imagination is more important than knowledge. ?For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.? ?Albert Einstein
Makes a little more sense.? (I would appreciate someone telling me when and where Einstein said what thinkexist says he said.)
I intend this to be a small contribution to the context counts movement.??(It counts in words, schools, and neighborhoods.)??But can we please take those posters down?
Which reminds me.? Rereading Noguera's Daily News essay I realize he ended with a less Manichean view of things than his good/evil intro suggested.
We must end the either-or debate. In Newark, we intend to prove that we can raise student achievement and mitigate the effects of poverty. We need cities like New York to join this effort wholeheartedly.
It's a beautiful morning.
?Peter Meyer
