Originally Posted by passthepotatoes
This isn't something a parent can buy, but children can use their imaginations. Gifted kids existed long before PCs and many found incredible ways to create and explore the world. Leta Hollingsworth's portrayals of young gifted kids are a great example of that. These kids aren't just consumers of the worlds someone else created, they often created their own worlds with their own laws, languages, social systems.
Sure, and of course I'm not knocking using one's imagination, just pointing out that playing with simulations can be fun, stimulating and possibly even educational too.

If I remember, at one point after I first joined the site, you were advocating the use of coloring books, and I was stating that I don't think that using them is as good as freeform art, since the latter stimulates more creativity. My, how time flies. smile

Striving to increase my rate of flow, and fight forum gloopiness. sick